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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!op.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4t8o99$mn9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4t52qo$5pt@stratus.skypoint.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E 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. ;-)