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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: User Accounting
Date: 25 Jul 1996 21:17:29 GMT
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psonnek@skypoint.com (Patrick Sonnek) wrote:

> I am looking for a way to collect statistics on system usage.  So far 
> nothing in the FreeBSD book, or any of the man pages has jumped out and 
> grabbed me.  The only thing I did notice, is that in /etc/sysconfig it 
> says that leave accounting off, as it probably dosn't work yet.

But this is wrong.  I'm running process accounting on various
machines, dating back to 2.0.5.  I've never seen a crash i could
hold the accounting system responsible for.

Have a look at accton(8) and its related man pages.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)