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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Accounting & FreeBSD 1.0.2 (where's sa?) Date: 2 May 1994 19:56:16 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 20 Message-ID: <2q3lt0$nqr@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <9412216.13556@mulga.cs.mu.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <9412216.13556@mulga.cs.mu.oz.au>, Mark Summerfield <summer@ee.mu.OZ.AU> wrote: >I want to keep track of my CPU usage patterns during normal work for a couple >of weeks. I was going to turn system accounting on, so I went to the man >pages to find out how it works. accton is there (and seems to work -- if >I give it a file, it logs data to it for each command I execute). However, >no other accounting commands seem to be present (in particular acct(5) >mentions "sa", which does not seem to exist). I'm sure I installed the >whole binary distribution. Is there some reason this command is not >present (bugs?). Because sa and friends are encumbered (non-distributable AT&T) code. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.