Connect Accounting

Connect accounting enables you to determine the following information:

• The length of time a user was logged in

• How the tty lines are being used

• The number of reboots on your system

• How many times the accounting software was turned off and on

To provide this information on connect sessions, the system stores the following data

• Record of time adjustments

• Boot times

• Number of times the accounting software was turned off and on

• Changes in run levels

• The creation of user processes (login processes and init processes)

• The terminations of processes

These records are produced from the output of system programs such as date, init, login, ttymon, and acctwtmp. They are stored in the /var/adm/wtmpx file.

Entries in the wtmpx file can contain the following information:

• Login name

• Device name

• Process ID

• Entry type

• Time stamp that denotes when the entry was made