This report gives information about each terminal line used. The following is a sample Daily Report.
Jan 16 02:30 2004 DAILY REPORT FOR venus Page 1 from Mon Jan 15 02:30:02 2004 to Tue Oan 16 02:30:01 2004 1 runacct 1 acctcon TOTAL DURATION IS 1440 MINUTES LINE MINUTES PERCENT # SESS # ON # OFF console 868 60 1 1 2 TOTALS 868 -- 1 1 2 |
The from and to lines specify the time period reflected in the report. This time period covers the time the last Daily Report was generated to the time the current Daily Report was generated. Then, the report presents a log of system reboots, shutdowns, power failure recoveries, and any other record written to the /var/adm/wtmpx file by the acctwtmp program. For more information, see the acct(1M) man page.
The second part of the report is a breakdown of terminal line utilization. The TOTAL DURATION tells how long the system was in multiuser mode (accessible through the terminal lines). The following table describes the data provided by the Daily Report.
Table 10–3 Daily Report Data
During real time, you should monitor the /var/adm/wtmpx file because it is the file from which the connect accounting is derived. If the wtmpx file grows rapidly, execute the following command to see which tty line is the noisiest.
# /usr/lib/acct/acctcon -l file < /var/adm/wtmpx |
If interruption is occurring frequently, general system performance will be affected. Additionally, the wtmp file might become corrupted. To correct this problem, see How to Fix a Corrupted wtmpx File.