1.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Christopher G. Demetriou 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products 13.\" derived from this software without specific prior written permission. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 17.\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 18.\" DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, 19.\" INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES 20.\" (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR 21.\" SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 22.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, 23.\" STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING 24.\" IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 25.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 26.\" 27.\" $Id: accton.8,v 1.1 1993/05/03 01:53:22 cgd Exp $ 28.\" 29.Dd May 2, 1993 30.Dt ACCTON 8 31.Os NetBSD 0.8a 32.Sh NAME 33.Nm accton , 34.Nm acctoff 35.Nd enable/disable system accounting 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Nm accton 38.Nm acctoff 39.Sh DESCRIPTION 40.Nm Accton 41enables generation of kernel accounting records, and 42.Nm acctoff 43disables their generation. 44The actual logging of accounting records is done 45by the 46.Xr accoutant 8 47program. 48.Sh SEE ALSO 49.Xr accountant 8 , 50.Xr lastcomm 1 , 51.Xr acct 5 52.Sh HISTORY 53The 54.Nm accton 55program probably appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX, 56or thereabouts, but was substantially modified for 57the new device-based accounting procedures in NetBSD 0.8a. 58.Nm Acctoff 59first appeard in NetBSD 0.8a. 60