accounts File

The accounts file contains a history of computer usage by user.

Synonym(s)

acc

Description

To capture accounting data for a specific user, add the character a to the options attribute (9) in the users file.

An item exists in the accounts file for each user. The item-ID from the users file is the item-ID in the accounts file.

Accounting may be suppressed system-wide by removing the accounts file. Accounting information is gathered from the pibs file when the user logs off.

The attributes in the accounts file are:

Attribute

Name

Description

0

user

Item-ID consists of the users ID.

1

MD

Name of the master dictionary (item-ID in the mds file) for the accounting period.

2

l-date

Log date of the accounting data.

3

l-time

Log time of the accounting data.

4

acct-time

Accounting period to the second.

5

cpu

Central Processing Unit (CPU) execution time (in tenths of seconds) used by this process for the accounting period.

6

pages

Number of printer pages output for accounting period.

7

pib#

Pib number user employed for the session.

See Also

listacc Command

pibs File

users File