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SA(1M)									SA(1M)

NAME
       sa, accton - system accounting

SYNOPSIS
       sa [ -abcjlnrstuv ] [ file ]

       /etc/accton [ file ]

DESCRIPTION
       With an argument naming an existing file, accton causes system account‐
       ing information for every process executed to be placed at the  end  of
       the file.  If no arguemnt is given, accounting is turned off.

       Sa reports on, cleans up, and generally maintains accounting files.

       Sa  is able to condense the information in /usr/adm/acct into a summary
       file /usr/adm/savacct which contains a count of	the  number  of	 times
       each  command was called and the time resources consumed.  This conden‐
       sation is desirable because on a large system  acct  can	 grow  by  100
       blocks  per  day.  The summary file is read before the accounting file,
       so the reports include all available information.

       If a file name is given as the last argument, that file will be treated
       as  the	accounting  file;  sha	is the default.	 There are zillions of
       options:

       a      Place all command names containing  unprintable  characters  and
	      those used only once under the name `***other.'

       b      Sort  output by sum of user and system time divided by number of
	      calls.  Default sort is by sum of user and system times.

       c      Besides total user, system, and real time for each command print
	      percentage of total time over all commands.

       j      Instead  of  total  minutes time for each category, give seconds
	      per call.

       l      Separate system and user time; normally they are combined.

       m      Print number of processes and number of  CPU  minutes  for  each
	      user.

       n      Sort by number of calls.

       r      Reverse order of sort.

       s      Merge  accounting	 file  into summary file /usr/adm/savacct when
	      done.

       t      For each command report ratio of real time to the	 sum  of  user
	      and system times.

       u      Superseding  all	other  flags,  print  for  each command in the
	      accounting file the user ID and command name.

       v      If the next character is a digit n, then type the name  of  each
	      command  used  n	times  or fewer.  Await a reply from the type‐
	      writer; if it begins with `y', add the command to	 the  category
	      `**junk**.'  This is used to strip out garbage.

FILES
       /usr/adm/acct  raw accounting
       /usr/adm/savacct	   summary
       /usr/adm/usracct	   per-user summary

SEE ALSO
       ac(1), acct(2)

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