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. |
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