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NAME

       accton -  turns process accounting on or off

SYNOPSIS

       accton [OPTION] on|off|filename

       accton [ -V | --version ] [ -h | --help ]

DESCRIPTION

       accton filename turns on process accounting.  If called with no
       arguments, it will, by default, stop process accounting.

OPTIONS

       -V, --version
              Print the version number of ac to standard output and
              quit.
       -h, --help
              Prints the usage string and default locations of system
              files to standard output and exits.

FILES

       acct   The system wide process accounting file. See acct(5) (or
              pacct(5)) for further details.

AUTHOR

       The GNU accounting utilities were written by Noel Cragg
       <noel@gnu.ai.mit.edu>. The man page was adapted from the
       accounting texinfo page by Susan Kleinmann <sgk@sgk.tiac.net>.

SEE ALSO

       acct(5), ac(8)

                               2008 November 24