acctcon(1M) System Administration Commands acctcon(1M)NAME
acctcon, acctcon1, acctcon2 - connect-time accounting
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/acct/acctcon [-l lineuse] [-o reboot]
/usr/lib/acct/acctcon1 [-p] [-t] [-l lineuse] [-o reboot]
/usr/lib/acct/acctcon2
DESCRIPTION
acctcon converts a sequence of login/logoff records to total accounting
records (see the tacct format in acct.h(3HEAD)). The login/logoff
records are read from standard input. The file /var/adm/wtmpx is usu‐
ally the source of the login/logoff records; however, because it might
contain corrupted records or system date changes, it should first be
fixed using wtmpfix. The fixed version of file /var/adm/wtmpx can then
be redirected to acctcon. The tacct records are written to standard
output.
acctcon is a combination of the programs acctcon1 and acctcon2. acct‐
con1 converts login/logoff records, taken from the fixed /var/adm/wtmpx
file, to ASCII output. acctcon2 reads the ASCII records produced by
acctcon1 and converts them to tacct records. acctcon1 can be used with
the -l and -o options, described below, as well as with the -p and -t
options.
OPTIONS-p Print input only, showing line name, login name, and
time (in both numeric and date/time formats).
-t acctcon1 maintains a list of lines on which users are
logged in. When it reaches the end of its input, it
emits a session record for each line that still appears
to be active. It normally assumes that its input is a
current file, so that it uses the current time as the
ending time for each session still in progress. The -t
flag causes it to use, instead, the last time found in
its input, thus assuring reasonable and repeatable num‐
bers for non-current files.
-l lineuse lineuse is created to contain a summary of line usage
showing line name, number of minutes used, percentage
of total elapsed time used, number of sessions charged,
number of logins, and number of logoffs. This file
helps track line usage, identify bad lines, and find
software and hardware oddities. Hangup, termination of
login(1) and termination of the login shell each gener‐
ate logoff records, so that the number of logoffs is
often three to four times the number of sessions. See
init(1M) and utmpx(4).
-o reboot reboot is filled with an overall record for the
accounting period, giving starting time, ending time,
number of reboots, and number of date changes.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Using the acctcon command.
The acctcon command is typically used as follows:
example% acctcon -l lineuse -o reboots < tmpwtmp > ctacct
The acctcon1 and acctcon2 commands are typically used as follows:
example% acctcon1 -l lineuse -o reboots < tmpwtmp | sort +1n +2 > ctmp
example% acctcon2 < ctmp > ctacct
FILES
/var/adm/wtmpx History of user access and administration
information
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWaccu │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOacctcom(1), login(1), acct(1M), acctcms(1M), acctmerg(1M), acctprc(1M),
acctsh(1M), fwtmp(1M), init(1M), runacct(1M), acct(2), acct.h(3HEAD),
utmpx(4), attributes(5)
System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
NOTES
The line usage report is confused by date changes. Use wtmpfix (see
fwtmp(1M)), with the /var/adm/wtmpx file as an argument, to correct
this situation.
During a single invocation of any given command, the acctcon, acctcon1,
and acctcon2 commands can process a maximum of:
· 6000 distinct session
· 1000 distinct terminal lines
· 2000 distinct login names
If at some point the actual number of any one of these items exceeds
the maximum, the command will not succeed.
SunOS 5.10 22 Feb 1999 acctcon(1M)