Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!gatech!hubcap
From: hubcap@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: accounting
Message-ID: <1094@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 88 21:10:42 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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Keywords: BSD

I need to map standard BSD accounting information into a format
that is palatable to our home-grown accounting programs. I need to 
charge people for CPU time. I see three fields which in themselves,
or in some combination, might give me a reasonable number to use:
  - ac_utime        defined as "user time"
  - ac_stime                   "system time"
  - ac_etime                   "elapsed time"

Other than the little blurb I included above, I know nothing about how
to interpret the data in these fields. I have looked in acct(2) and acct(5).
Where might I find out more info? What can you tell me about these fields?

Thanks for any help.

-Mike Marshall       hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu        ...!hubcap!hubcap