DUMP-ACCT

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Updated: 2000 July 19
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NAME

dump-acct - print an acct/pacct file in human-readable format

SYNOPSIS

dump-acct: [ -r | --reverse ] [ -R | --raw ] [ -n | --num recs ] [ -h | --help ] [ files ]

DESCRIPTION

dump-acct filename prints a list of all executed processes. This list is written by the kernel which must be compiled with BSD process accounting enabled. It must be started with accton(5).

All fields are separated by vertical line. Fields are: command, user time, system time, effective time, uid, gid, memory, io, time. User, system and effective times are ticks per second. One tick is usually 1/50 of a second.

OPTIONS

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-h, --help: Prints the usage string and default locations of system files to standard output and exits.
-n, --num recs: Number of lines to print.
-r, --reverse: Start printing from last records.
-R, --raw: Print raw records, not human-readable.

FILES

acct: The system wide process accounting file. See acct(5) (or pacct(5)) for further details.

AUTHOR

The GNU accounting utilities were written by Noel Cragg <noel@gnu.ai.mit.edu>. The man page was written by Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> for Debian GNU systems (but may be used by others).

This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 22:00:02 GMT, April 19, 2024