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Revision as of 07:19, 16 December 2019
Acct package allows to activate process accounting in Linux. Installing acct package in Ubuntu activates accounting by default.
- Configuration:
/etc/default/acct - Logs file:
/var/log/account/pacct
Activities
- Install in Ubuntu
acctaccounting package and deactivate it changingACCT_ENABLE="1"toACCT_ENABLE="0"in/etc/default/acctand stopping it/etc/init.d/acct stop - Activate accounting by executing
accton onand deactivate it by executingaccton offand check statusservice acct status
grep -w acct /var/log/syslog Jul 29 14:22:00 machine-name acct[23114]: Turning on process accounting, file set to '/var/log/account/pacct'. Jul 29 14:22:00 machine-name acct[23114]: * Done. Jul 29 15:02:15 machine-name acct[12629]: Turning off process accounting. Jul 29 15:02:15 machine-name acct[12629]: * Done.
See also
- atop
- sar
- auditd (https://linux.die.net/man/8/auditd) allows to retrieve audit records such as system-calls from the kernel
- Linux server administration/Performance and Troubleshooting
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