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System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration     Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 Information Library
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About This Book

1.  Managing Terminals and Modems (Overview)

2.  Setting Up Terminals and Modems (Tasks)

3.  Managing Serial Ports With the Service Access Facility (Tasks)

4.  Managing System Resources (Overview)

5.  Displaying and Changing System Information (Tasks)

6.  Managing Disk Use (Tasks)

7.  Managing UFS Quotas (Tasks)

8.  Scheduling System Tasks (Tasks)

9.  Managing System Accounting (Tasks)

What's New in System Accounting

Oracle Solaris Process Accounting and Statistics Improvements

What is System Accounting?

How System Accounting Works

System Accounting Components

Connect Accounting

Process Accounting

Disk Accounting

Fee Calculations

How Daily Accounting Works

What Happens If the System Shuts Down

System Accounting (Task Map)

Setting Up System Accounting

How to Set Up System Accounting

Billing Users

How to Bill Users

Maintaining Accounting Information

Fixing Corrupted Files and wtmpx Errors

How to Fix a Corrupted wtmpx File

Fixing tacct Errors

How to Fix tacct Errors

Restarting the runacct Script

How to Restart the runacct Script

Stopping and Disabling System Accounting

How to Temporarily Stop System Accounting

How to Permanently Disable System Accounting

10.  System Accounting (Reference)

11.  Managing System Performance (Overview)

12.  Managing System Processes (Tasks)

13.  Monitoring System Performance (Tasks)

14.  Troubleshooting Software Problems (Overview)

15.  Managing System Messages

16.  Managing Core Files (Tasks)

17.  Managing System Crash Information (Tasks)

18.  Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Software Problems (Tasks)

19.  Troubleshooting File Access Problems (Tasks)

20.  Resolving UFS File System Inconsistencies (Tasks)

21.  Troubleshooting Software Package Problems (Tasks)

Index

Stopping and Disabling System Accounting

You can temporarily stop system accounting or permanently disable it.

How 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

How to Permanently Disable 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 and delete the entries for the ckpacct, runacct, and monacct programs.
    # EDITOR=vi; export EDITOR
    # crontab -e adm
  3. Edit the root crontab file and delete the entries for the dodisk program.
    # crontab -e
  4. Remove the startup script for Run Level 2.
    # unlink /etc/rc2.d/S22acct
  5. Remove the stop script for Run Level 0.
    # unlink /etc/rc0.d/K22acct
  6. Stop the system accounting program.
    # /etc/init.d/acct stop