Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!world!unixland!bill
From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Starting accounting
Keywords: acct file
Message-ID: <1990Oct7.023143.12608@unixland.uucp>
Date: 7 Oct 90 02:31:43 GMT
References: <1007@oscsunb.osc.edu>
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Organization: The Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
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In article <1007@oscsunb.osc.edu> raghu@osc.edu (Raghu Machiraju) writes:
>I have a Sun-3/260 running SunOS 4.0.3 and I would like to start
>accounting. The /etc/rc file has the lines
>		if [ -f /var/adm/acct ]; then
>			accton /var/adm/acct ; echo ( --- etc ---
>		fi
>However I could never get accounting started. Trying to use the
>command accton outside /etc/rc did not yield success, since I 
>got invalid option on accton /var/adm/acct.  "/var/adm/acct"

It sounds like you probably don't have ACCOUNTING enabled in your kernel.
You need to rebuild the kernel, making sure that the ACCOUNTING line
is uncommented in the config file.

Bill


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