ACCTON(8)

✨ ACCTON 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to accton — that's a System Manager's Manual situation, section 8, the whole admin vibe 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

accton — turns process accounting on or off ✨ that's it, that's the job, and she does it flawlessly 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

accton [OPTION] on|off|filename

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

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

accton filename turns on process accounting. periodt. that's literally the whole description and honestly? iconic of her to be that concise 💅

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -V, --version — prints the version number of ac to standard output and quits. not accton, bestie, it says ac — we don't make the rules, we just report them 🫶
• -h, --help — prints the usage string and the default locations of the system files to standard output, then exits. it's giving helpful. it's giving informative. ✨
• on — turns on process accounting using the default accounting file name 🌸
• off — turns off process accounting 💀 (she's off duty, respect it)

🍓 FILES 🍓

• acct — the system wide process accounting file. for further details go read acct(5) (or pacct(5), depending on your vibe) 📖

💜 AUTHOR 💜

the GNU accounting utilities were written by Noel Cragg <noel@gnu.ai.mit.edu> 🫶 and the man page was adapted from the accounting texinfo page by Susan Kleinmann <sgk@sgk.tiac.net> — legends, both of them, no cap 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

acct(5), ac(1) — go read those too, iykyk 💅

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this little beauty is from the System Manager's Manual, dated 2008 November 24 — a classic never goes out of style 💖🎀✨