NAME

       accton -  turns process accounting on or off

SYNOPSIS

       accton [OPTION] on|off|filename

       accton [ -V | --version ] [ -h | --help ]

DESCRIPTION

       accton filename turns on process accounting.

OPTIONS

       -V, --version
              Print the version number of ac to standard output and quit.
       -h, --help
              Prints the usage string and default locations of system files to standard output
              and exits.
       on     Turns on process accounting using the default accounting file name.
       off    Turns off process accounting.

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 adapted from the accounting texinfo page by Susan Kleinmann <sgk@sgk.tiac.net>.

SEE ALSO

       acct(5), ac(1)

                                         2008 November 24                               ACCTON(8)