ACCTON(8)		    System Manager's Manual		     ACCTON(8)



NAME
       accton -	 turns process accounting on or off

SYNOPSIS
       accton [ -V | --version ] [ -h | --help ] [ filename ]

DESCRIPTION
       accton filename turns on process accounting.  If called with no
       arguments, it will, by default, stop process accounting.

OPTIONS
       -V, --version
	      Print the version number of ac to standard output and
	      quit.

       -h, --help
	      Prints the usage string and default locations of system
	      files to standard output and exits.

FILES
       acct   The system wide process accounting file. See acct(5) (or
	      pacct(5)) for further details.

AUTHOR
       The GNU accounting utilities were written by Noel Cragg
       <noel@gnu.ai.mit.edu>. The man page was adapted from the
       accounting texinfo page by Susan Kleinmann <sgk@sgk.tiac.net>.

SEE ALSO
       acct(5), ac(8)



				1995 October 31			     ACCTON(8)