Accounting for BSD 4.3 system managers
The accounting files in the /usr/lib/acct directory and the system activity reporting tools in the /usr/lib/sa directory for AIX® are identical to those available with AT&T System V Release 4 (SVR4) with the addition of 4.3 BSD accounting utilities.
Many of the accounting commands are in the /usr/lib/acct directory. To begin system accounting, use the /usr/lib/acct/startup command. If accounting is not started, commands such as lastcomm(1) cannot return information.
AIX provides these 4.3 BSD accounting facilities:
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| last(1) | Indicates last logins of users and terminals |
| lastcomm(1) | Shows in reverse order the last commands executed |
| acct(3) | Enables and disables process accounting |
| ac(8) | Login accounting |
| accton(8) | Turns system accounting on or off |
| sa(8) | Generally maintains system accounting files. |
AIX also provides these System V Interface Definition (SVID) Issue II accounting commands and library functions:
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| acctcms(1) | Produces command usage summaries from accounting records |
| acctcom(1) | Displays selected process-accounting record summaries |
| acctcon1(1) | Converts login/logoff records to session records |
| acctcon2(1) | Converts login/logoff records to total accounting records |
| acctdisk(1) | Generates total accounting records from diskusg(1) command output |
| acctmerg(1) | Merges total accounting files into an intermediary file |
| accton(1) | Turns on accounting |
| acctprc1(1) | Processes accounting information from acct(3) command |
| acctprc2(1) | Processes output of acctprc1(1) command into total accounting records |
| acctwtmp(1) | Manipulates connect-time accounting records |
| chargefee(1) | Charges to login name |
| ckpacct(1) | Checks size of /usr/adm/pacct file |
| diskusg(1) | Generates disk accounting information |
| dodisk(1) | Performs disk accounting |
| fwtmp(1) | Converts binary records (wtmp file)
to formatted ASCII. Note: The wtmp file
is in the /var/adm directory.
|
| lastlogin(1) | Updates last date on which each person logged in |
| monacct(1) | Creates monthly summary files |
| prctmp(1) | Prints session record file produced by acctcon1(1) command |
| prdaily(1) | Formats a report of yesterday's accounting information |
| prtacct(1) | Formats and prints any total accounting file |
| runacct(1) | Runs daily accounting |
| shutacct(1) | Called by system shutdown to stop accounting and log the reason |
| startup(1) | Called by system initialization to start accounting |
| turnacct(1) | Turns process accounting on or off |
| wtmpfix(1) | Corrects time/date stamps in a file using wtmp format |