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| author | brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-04-16 09:31:17 +0000 |
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| committer | brueffer <brueffer@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-04-16 09:31:17 +0000 |
| commit | f40c0ef4e99a5c43f26fdc53249a21dd40d506b4 (patch) | |
| tree | f3cff1cad5423bc29c2cde6852b48c9051b2462a /usr.sbin/accton | |
| parent | 4571d09a4cc0f9d6fd72afd6bc31377e7049622f (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-f40c0ef4e99a5c43f26fdc53249a21dd40d506b4.zip FreeBSD-src-f40c0ef4e99a5c43f26fdc53249a21dd40d506b4.tar.gz | |
o split a sentence to make it more understandable
o mention that the acctfile has to exist for accton to work [1]
o add reference to acct.5
PR: 65071 [1] (slightly modified)
Submitted by: Marc Silver <marcs@draenor.org>
X-MFC after: re approval
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/accton')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/accton/accton.8 | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/accton/accton.8 b/usr.sbin/accton/accton.8 index 20eb45a..73c7d29 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/accton/accton.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/accton/accton.8 @@ -16,8 +16,13 @@ utility is used for switching system accounting on or off. If called with the argument .Ar acctfile , -system accounting is enabled and a record of -every process that is started by the +system accounting is enabled. +The +.Ar acctfile +specified must exist prior to starting system accounting, or +.Nm +will return an error. +A record of every process that is started by the .Xr execve 2 system call and then later exits the system is stored in .Ar acctfile . @@ -33,4 +38,5 @@ default accounting file .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr lastcomm 1 , .Xr acct 2 , +.Xr acct 5 , .Xr sa 8 |
