ACCTCOM(1) User Commands ACCTCOM(1)

NAME

acctcom - search and print process accounting files

SYNOPSIS

acctcom [-abfhikmqrtv] [-C sec] [-e time] [-E time]
[-g group] [-H factor] [-I chars] [-l line]
[-n pattern] [-o output-file] [-O sec] [-s time]
[-S time] [-u user] [filename]...

DESCRIPTION

The acctcom utility reads filenames, the standard input, or
/var/adm/pacct, in the form described by acct.h(3HEAD) and writes
selected records to standard output. Each record represents the
execution of one process. The output shows the COMMAND NAME, USER,
TTYNAME, START TIME, END TIME, REAL (SEC), CPU (SEC), MEAN SIZE (K),
and optionally, F (the fork()/exec() flag: 1 for fork() without
exec()), STAT (the system exit status), HOG FACTOR, KCORE MIN, CPU
FACTOR, CHARS TRNSFD, and BLOCKS READ (total blocks read and
written).


A `#' is prepended to the command name if the command was executed
with super-user privileges. If a process is not associated with a
known terminal, a `?' is printed in the TTYNAME field.


If no filename is specified, and if the standard input is associated
with a terminal or /dev/null (as is the case when using `&' in the
shell), /var/adm/pacct is read; otherwise, the standard input is
read.


If any filename arguments are given, they are read in their
respective order. Each file is normally read forward, that is, in
chronological order by process completion time. The file
/var/adm/pacct is usually the current file to be examined; a busy
system may need several such files of which all but the current file
are found in /var/adm/pacctincr.

OPTIONS

The following options are supported:

-a
Show some average statistics about the processes
selected. The statistics will be printed after the
output records.


-b
Read backwards, showing latest commands first. This
option has no effect when standard input is read.


-f
Print the fork()/exec() flag and system exit status
columns in the output. The numeric output for this
option will be in octal.


-h
Instead of mean memory size, show the fraction of
total available CPU time consumed by the process
during its execution. This "hog factor" is computed
as (total CPU time)/(elapsed time).


-i
Print columns containing the I/O counts in the
output.


-k
Instead of memory size, show total kcore-minutes.


-m
Show mean core size (the default).


-q
Do not print any output records, just print the
average statistics as with the -a option.


-r
Show CPU factor (user-time/(system-time + user-
time)).


-t
Show separate system and user CPU times.


-v
Exclude column headings from the output.


-C sec
Show only processes with total CPU time (system-
time + user-time) exceeding sec seconds.


-e time
Select processes existing at or before time.


-E time
Select processes ending at or before time. Using
the same time for both -S and -E shows the
processes that existed at time.


-g group
Show only processes belonging to group. The group
may be designated by either the group ID or group
name.


-H factor
Show only processes that exceed factor, where
factor is the "hog factor" as explained in option
-h above.


-I chars
Show only processes transferring more characters
than the cutoff number given by chars.


-l line
Show only processes belonging to terminal
/dev/term/line.


-n pattern
Show only commands matching pattern that may be a
regular expression as in regcmp(3C), except + means
one or more occurrences.


-o output-file
Copy selected process records in the input data
format to output-file; suppress printing to
standard output.


-O sec
Show only processes with CPU system time exceeding
sec seconds.


-s time
Select processes existing at or after time, given
in the format hr[:min[:sec]].


-S time
Select processes starting at or after time.


-u user
Show only processes belonging to user. The user may
be specified by a user ID, a login name that is
then converted to a user ID, `#' (which designates
only those processes executed with superuser
privileges), or `?' (which designates only those
processes associated with unknown user IDs).

FILES

/etc/group
system group file


/etc/passwd
system password file


/var/adm/pacctincr
active processes accounting file

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


+---------------+-----------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+-----------------+
|CSI | Enabled |
+---------------+-----------------+

SEE ALSO

ps(1), acct(2), regcmp(3C), acct.h(3HEAD), utmp(5), attributes(7),
acct(8), acctcms(8), acctcon(8), acctmerg(8), acctprc(8), acctsh(8),
fwtmp(8), runacct(8), su(8)


System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

NOTES

acctcom reports only on processes that have terminated; use ps(1) for
active processes.

January 11, 1996 ACCTCOM(1)