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AIX Version 4.3 System Management Guide: Operating System and Devices
Setting Up an Accounting System
Prerequisites
You must have root authority to complete this procedure.
Procedure
The following is an overview of the
steps you must take to set up an accounting system. Refer to the commands
and files noted in these steps for more specific information.
- Enter the
nulladm command to ensure that each file has the proper access permission:
read (r) and write (w) permission for the file owner and group and
read (r) permission for others:
/usr/sbin/acct/nulladm wtmp pacct
This provides access to the pacct and wtmp files.
- Update the /etc/acct/holidays file to
include the hours you designate as prime time and to reflect your holiday
schedule for the year.
Note: Comment lines can appear
anywhere in the file as long as the first character in the line is
an * (asterisk).
- To define prime time, fill in the fields on the first data line (the first line that is not a comment), using a 24-hour clock. This line consists of three 4-digit fields, in the following order:
- Current year
- Beginning of prime time (hhmm)
- End of prime time (hhmm)
Leading blanks are ignored. You can enter midnight as either 0000 or 2400.
For example, to specify the year 1984, with prime time beginning at 8:00 a.m. and ending at 5:00 p.m., enter:
1984 0800 1700
- To define the company holidays for the year on the next data line. Each line contains four fields, in the following order:
- Day of the year
- Month
- Day of the month
- Description of holiday
The day-of-the-year field contains the number of the day on which the holiday falls and must be a number from 1 through 365 (366 on leap year). For example, February 1st is day 32. The other three fields are for information only and are treated as comments.
A two-line example follows:
1 Jan 1
New Year's Day332 Nov 28
Thanksgiving Day
- Turn on process accounting by adding the
following line to the /etc/rc file or by deleting the comment
symbol (#) in front of the line if it exists:
/usr/bin/su - adm -c /usr/sbin/acct/startup
The startup procedure records the time that accounting was turned
on and cleans up the previous day's accounting files.
- Identify each file system you want included in
disk accounting by adding the following line to the stanza for the file
system in the /etc/filesystems file:
account = true
- Specify the data file to use for printer data by
adding the following line to the queue stanza in the
/etc/qconfig file:
acctfile = /var/adm/qacct
- As the adm user, create a
/var/adm/acct/nite, /var/adm/acct/fiscal, and
/var/adm/acct/sum directory to collect daily and fiscal period
records:
su - adm
cd /var/adm/acct
mkdir nite fiscal sum
exit
- Set daily accounting procedures to run
automatically by editing the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root file to
include the dodisk, ckpacct, and runacct commands. For example:
0 2 * * 4 /usr/sbin/acct/dodisk
5 * * * * /usr/sbin/acct/ckpacct
0 4 * * 1-6 /usr/sbin/acct/runacct
2>/var/adm/acct/nite/accterr
The first line starts disk accounting at 2:00 a.m. (0 2
)
each Thursday (4). The second line starts a check of the integrity of the
active data files at 5 minutes past each hour (5 *
)
every day (*
). The third line runs most accounting procedures
and processes active data files at 4:00 a.m. (0 4
) every
Monday through Saturday (1-6
). If these times do not fit the
hours your system operates, adjust your entries.
Note: You must have root user
authority to edit the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root file.
- Set the monthly accounting summary to run
automatically by including the
monacct
command in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root file. For example:
15 5 1 * * /usr/sbin/acct/monacct
Be sure to schedule this procedure early enough to finish the report. This
example starts the procedure at 5:15 a.m. on the first day of each
month.
- To submit the edited
cron file,
enter:
crontab /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
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