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From: paul@whuts.UUCP (HO)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: System Accounting
Message-ID: <2542@whuts.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 10:35:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: whuts.2542
Posted: Tue Aug  4 10:35:20 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Aug-87 06:54:04 EDT
References: <32128@auc.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Keywords: accounting

In article <32128@auc.UUCP>, maw@auc.UUCP writes:
> 	I am presently working on a system accounting program for our systems 
> that are running SYSTEM V Ver 2.0 2 UNIX.  The program should total the cpu 
> time, connect time, and disk usage for each login according to which group 
> they belong. 

Won't a simple awk script do? 

> However, I run into some problems that I have traced back to 
> the structure that I assumed the data file tacctMMDD was in.  The following 
> is my assumption of the structure:

See acct(4).

> Also, if anyone knows if, for any reason other than system 
> crashes and the like, the data
> file tacctMMDD could become corrupt .....

Possible, if you have a corrupted pacct and wtmp to begin with.
The acct package tries to fix certain corrupted entries, but in
general acct is pretty dumb.

	Paul Ho