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System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

ProcedureHow 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