ACCTCOM(1) — (Process Accounting Utilities)

NAME

acctcom − search and print process accounting file(s)

SYNOPSIS

acctcom [[options][file]] . . .

DESCRIPTION

acctcom reads file, the standard input, or /usr/adm/pacct, in the form described by acct(4) and writes selected records to the 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 superuser privileges. If a process is not associated with a known terminal, a ? is printed in the TTYNAME field.

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

If any file arguments are given, they are read in their respective order. Each file is normally read forward, i.e., in chronological order by process completion time. The file /usr/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 /usr/adm/pacct? The options are:

−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 the 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).

−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.

−l line Show only processes belonging to terminal /dev/line.

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

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

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

−e time Select processes existing at or before time.

−S time Select processes starting at or after 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.

−n pattern Show only commands matching pattern that may be a regular expression as in ed(1) except that + means one or more occurrences.

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

−o ofile Copy selected process records in the input data format to ofile; supress standard output printing.

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

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

−C sec Show only processes with total CPU time, system plus user, exceeding sec seconds.

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

FILES

/etc/passwd
/usr/adm/pacct
/etc/group

BUGS

acctcom reports only on processes that have terminated; use ps(1) for active processes. If time exceeds the present time, then time is interpreted as occurring on the previous day.

March 13, 1992

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