Chapter 14. System Accounting

The system accounting utility allows you to collect and report on individual and group use of various system resources.

Topics discussed in this chapter are:

• Accounting Overview
• Setting Up an Accounting System
• Generating System Accounting Reports
• Generating Reports on System Activity
• Summarizing Accounting Records
• Starting the runacct Command
• Restarting the runacct Command
• Showing System Activity
• Showing System Activity While Running a Command
• Showing Process Time
• Showing CPU Usage
• Showing Connect Time Usage
• Showing Disk Space Utilization
• Showing Printer Usage
• Fixing tacct Errors
• Fixing wtmp Errors
• Fixing General Accounting Problems
• Displaying Locking Activity