acctcon(1M)
acctcon, acctcon1, acctcon2 --
connect-time accounting
Synopsis
/usr/lib/acct/acctcon [options]
/usr/lib/acct/acctcon1 [options]
/usr/lib/acct/acctcon2
Description
acctcon converts a sequence of login/logoff records to total
accounting records (see the tacct format in
acct(4)).
acctcon reads login/logoff records from standard input.
The file
/var/adm/wtmp is usually the source of the login/logoff
records, however, because it may contain corrupted
records or system date changes, it should first be fixed using
wtmpfix. The fixed version of file /var/adm/wtmp can then
be redirected to acctcon.
The tacct records are written to
standard output.
Here are the options for acctcon:
-l file-
file
is created to contain a summary of line usage showing
line name, number of minutes used, percentage of total elapsed time used,
number of sessions charged, number of logins,
and number of logoffs.
This file helps track line usage,
identify bad lines, and find software and hardware oddities.
Hangup, termination of
login
and termination of the login shell each generate logoff records, so that
the number of logoffs is often three to four times the number of sessions.
See
init(1M)
and
utmp(4).
-o file-
file
is filled with an overall record for the accounting period,
giving starting time,
ending time,
number of reboots,
and number of date changes.
acctcon is a combination of the programs acctcon1 and
acctcon2.
acctcon1 converts login/logoff records, taken from
the fixed /var/adm/wtmp file, to ASCII output.
acctcon2 reads the ASCII records produced by acctcon1 and
converts them to tacct records.
acctcon1 can be
used with the -l and -o options,
described above, as well as
with the following options:
-p-
Print input only,
showing line name,
login name,
and time (in both numeric and date/time formats).
-t-
acctcon1
maintains a list of lines on which users are logged in.
When it reaches the end of its input,
it emits a session record for each line that still appears to be active.
It normally assumes that its input is a current file,
so that it uses the current time as the ending time for
each session still in progress.
The
-t
flag causes it to use, instead, the last time found in its input,
thus assuring reasonable and repeatable numbers for non-current files.
Files
/var/adm/wtmp
Examples
The acctcon command is typically used as follows:
acctcon -l lineuse -o reboots < tmpwtmp > ctacct
The acctcon1 and acctcon2 commands are typically
used as follows:
acctcon1 -l lineuse -o reboots < tmpwtmp | sort +1n +2 > ctmp
acctcon2 < ctmp > ctacct
References
acct(1M),
acct(2),
acct(4),
acctcms(1M),
acctcom(1),
acctmerg(1M),
acctprc(1M),
acctsh(1M),
fwtmp(1M),
init(1M),
login(1),
runacct(1M),
utmp(4)
Notices
The line usage report is confused by date changes.
Use wtmpfix (see
fwtmp(1M)),
with the /var/adm/wtmp
file as an argument, to correct this situation.
© 2004 The SCO Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.4 - 25 April 2004