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Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point. Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu> Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
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.\" @(#)acct.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd April 17, 2004
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.Dt ACCT 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm acct
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.Nd enable or disable process accounting
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In unistd.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn acct "const char *file"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn acct
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system call enables or disables the collection of system accounting
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records.
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If the argument
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.Fa file
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is a null pointer, accounting is disabled.
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If
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.Fa file
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is an
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.Em existing
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pathname (null-terminated), record collection is enabled and for
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every process initiated which terminates under normal
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conditions an accounting record is appended to
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.Fa file .
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Abnormal conditions of termination are reboots
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or other fatal system problems.
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Records for processes which never terminate cannot be
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produced by
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.Fn acct .
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.Pp
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For more information on the record structure used by
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.Fn acct ,
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see
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.In sys/acct.h
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and
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.Xr acct 5 .
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.Pp
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This call is permitted only to the super-user.
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.Sh NOTES
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Accounting is automatically disabled when the file system the
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accounting file resides on runs out of space; it is enabled when
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space once again becomes available.
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The values controlling this behaviour can be modified using the following
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.Xr sysctl 8
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variables:
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.Bl -tag -width ".Va kern.acct_chkfreq"
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.It Va kern.acct_chkfreq
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Specifies the frequency (in seconds) with which free disk
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space should be checked.
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.It Va kern.acct_resume
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The percentage of free disk space above which process
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accounting will resume.
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.It Va kern.acct_suspend
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The percentage of free disk space below which process
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accounting will suspend.
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.El
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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On error -1 is returned.
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The file must exist and the call may be exercised only by the super-user.
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.Sh ERRORS
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The
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.Fn acct
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system call will fail if one of the following is true:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EPERM
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The caller is not the super-user.
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.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
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A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
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.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
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A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
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or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
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.It Bq Er ENOENT
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The named file does not exist.
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.It Bq Er EACCES
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Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix,
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or the path name is not a regular file.
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.It Bq Er ELOOP
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Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
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.It Bq Er EROFS
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The named file resides on a read-only file system.
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.It Bq Er EFAULT
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The
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.Fa file
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argument
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points outside the process's allocated address space.
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.It Bq Er EIO
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An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr acct 5 ,
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.Xr accton 8 ,
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.Xr sa 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn acct
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function appeared in
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.At v7 .
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