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.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Dirk Eddelbuettel (Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca)
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.\" FIXME this page needs to say a lot more, including mentioning
.\" Version 3 format process accounting on Linux.
.TH ACCT 5 2003-11-01 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
acct \- execution accounting file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <sys/acct.h>
.SH DESCRIPTION
If the kernel was compiled with the process accounting option enabled,
the system call
.RS
acct("/somewhere/accountingfile");
.RE
will start the process accounting. Each time a process terminates
a record for this process is appended to the accounting file.
The accounting structure
.B "struct acct"
is also described in the file
.IR /usr/include/linux/acct.h .
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR lastcomm (1),
.BR sa (1),
.BR acct (2),
.BR accton (8).
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