131 lines
3.9 KiB
Groff
131 lines
3.9 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: acct.2,v 1.15 2003/08/07 16:43:55 agc Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
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.\" @(#)acct.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\"
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.Dd June 4, 1993
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.Dt ACCT 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm acct
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.Nd enable or disable process accounting
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In unistd.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn acct "const char *file"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn acct
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call enables or disables the collection of system accounting
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records.
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If the argument
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.Fa file
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is a nil pointer, accounting is disabled.
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If
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.Fa file
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is an
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.Em existing
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pathname (null-terminated), record collection is enabled and for
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every process initiated which terminates under normal
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conditions an accounting record is appended to
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.Fa file .
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Abnormal conditions of termination are reboots
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or other fatal system problems.
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Records for processes which never terminate can not be
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produced by
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.Fn acct .
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.Pp
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For more information on the record structure used by
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.Fn acct ,
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see
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.Pa /usr/include/sys/acct.h
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and
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.Xr acct 5 .
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.Pp
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This call is permitted only to the super-user.
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.Sh NOTES
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Accounting is automatically disabled when the file system the
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accounting file resides on runs out of space; it is enabled when
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space once again becomes available.
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For this purpose,
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.Fn acct
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creates a kernel thread called
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.Dq acctwatch .
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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On error -1 is returned.
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The file must exist and the call may be exercised only by the super-user.
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.Sh ERRORS
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.Fn acct
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will fail if one of the following is true:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EPERM
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The caller is not the super-user.
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.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
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A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
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.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
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A component of a pathname exceeded
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.Dv {NAME_MAX}
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characters, or an entire path name exceeded
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.Dv {PATH_MAX}
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characters.
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.It Bq Er ENOENT
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The named file does not exist.
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.It Bq Er EACCES
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Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix,
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or the path name is not a regular file.
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.It Bq Er ELOOP
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Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
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.It Bq Er EROFS
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The named file resides on a read-only file system.
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.It Bq Er EFAULT
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.Fa file
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points outside the process's allocated address space.
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.It Bq Er EIO
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An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
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.El
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Also,
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.Fn acct
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fails if failed to create kernel thread described above.
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See
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.Xr fork 2
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for
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.Va errno
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value.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr fork 2 ,
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.Xr acct 5 ,
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.Xr sa 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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An
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.Fn acct
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function call appeared in
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.At v7 .
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