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38.\"     @(#)ac.8	8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
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40.Dd April 19, 1994
41.Dt AC 8
42.Os
43.Sh NAME
44.Nm ac
45.Nd display connect time accounting
46.Sh SYNOPSIS
47.Nm
48.Op Fl d | p
49.Op Fl t Ar tty
50.Op Fl w Ar file
51.Op Ar users ...
52.Sh DESCRIPTION
53If the file
54.Pa /var/log/wtmp
55exists,
56a record of individual
57login and logout times are written to it by
58.Xr login 1
59and
60.Xr init 8 ,
61respectively.
62The program
63.Nm
64examines these
65records and writes the accumulated connect time for all logins to the
66standard output.
67.Pp
68Options available:
69.Bl -tag -width indentXXX
70.It Fl d
71Display the connect times in 24 hour chunks.
72.It Fl p
73Display individual user totals.
74.It Fl t Ar tty
75Only do accounting logins on certain ttys.
76The
77.Ar tty
78specification can start with
79.Ql \&!
80to indicate not this
81.Ar tty
82and end with
83.Ql *
84to indicate all similarly named ttys.
85Multiple
86.Fl t
87flags may be specified.
88.It Fl w Ar file
89Read raw connect time data from
90.Ar file
91instead of the default file
92.Pa /var/log/wtmp .
93.It Ar users ...
94Display totals for the given individuals
95only.
96.El
97.Pp
98If no arguments are given,
99.Nm
100displays the total amount of login time for all active accounts on the
101system.
102.Pp
103The default
104.Pa wtmp
105file is an infinitely increasing file
106unless frequently truncated.
107This is normally done by the daily daemon scripts scheduled by
108.Xr cron 8 ,
109which rename and rotate the
110.Pa wtmp
111files before truncating them (and keep about a week's worth on hand).
112No login times are collected, however, if the file does not exist.
113.Pp
114For example,
115.Bd -literal -offset indent
116ac -p -t "ttyd*" > modems
117ac -p -t "!ttyd*" > other
118.Ed
119.Pp
120allows times recorded in
121.Pa modems
122to be charged out at a different rate than
123.Pa other .
124.Sh FILES
125.Bl -tag -width /var/log/wtmp.[0-7] -compact
126.It Pa /var/log/wtmp
127connect time accounting file
128.It Pa /var/log/wtmp.[0-7]
129rotated files
130.El
131.Sh EXIT STATUS
132.Ex -std ac
133.Sh SEE ALSO
134.Xr login 1 ,
135.Xr utmp 5 ,
136.Xr init 8 ,
137.Xr sa 8
138.Sh HISTORY
139An
140.Nm
141command appeared in
142.At v6 .
143This version of
144.Nm
145was written for
146.Nx 1.0
147from the specification provided by various systems' manual pages.
148