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acct(2)
NAME
  acct - Enables and disables process accounting

SYNOPSIS
  int acct(
	  char *path );

PARAMETERS
  path
      Specifies a pointer to the pathname of the file, or specifies a null
      pointer.

DESCRIPTION
  The acct() function enables and disables UNIX process accounting.  When
  enabled, process accounting produces an accounting record on behalf of each
  terminating process. The path parameter specifies the pathname of the file
  to which an accounting record is written. When the path parameter is 0
  (zero) or a null value, the acct() function disables the accounting
  routine. If the path parameter refers to a symbolic link, the acct()
  function writes records to the file pointed to by the symbolic link. If
  Network File System is installed on your system, the accounting file can
  reside on another node. To ensure accurate accounting, each node must have
  its own accounting file, which can be located on any node in the network.
  The calling process must have superuser privilege to enable or disable
  process accounting.

RETURN VALUES
  Upon successful completion, the acct() function returns a value of 0
  (zero).  Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate
  the error.

ERRORS
  If the acct() function fails, errno may be set to one of the following
  values:

  [EPERM]
      The calling process does not have appropriate system privilege.

  [ENOENT]
      The file named by the path parameter does not exist.

  [EACCES]
      The file named by the path parameter is not an ordinary file.

  [EACCES]
      Write permission is denied for the named accounting file.

  [EROFS]
      The named file resides on a read-only file system.

SEE ALSO
  Functions: exit(2), sigaction(2), sigvec(2), expacct(3), raise(3)

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