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System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

ProcedureHow to Temporarily Stop System Accounting

  1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.

    Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. For more information about roles, see Configuring RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

  2. Edit the adm crontab file to stop the ckpacct, runacct, and monacct programs from running by commenting out the appropriate lines.


    # EDITOR=vi; export EDITOR
# crontab -e adm
#0 * * * * /usr/lib/acct/ckpacct
#30 2 * * * /usr/lib/acct/runacct 2> /var/adm/acct/nite/fd2log
#30 7 1 * * /usr/lib/acct/monacct

  3. Edit the root crontab file to stop the dodisk program from running by commenting out the appropriate line.


    # crontab -e
#30 22 * * 4 /usr/lib/acct/dodisk

  4. Stop the system accounting program.


    # /etc/init.d/acct stop

  5. (Optional) Remove the newly added comment symbols from the crontab files.

  6. Restart the system accounting program to re-enable system accounting.


    # /etc/init.d/acct start