How to Deactivate Process, Task, Flow, and Network Management Accounting

To deactivate process, task, flow, and network accounting, turn off each of them individually by using the acctadm command with the -x option.

1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.

2. Turn off process accounting.

   # acctadm -x process

3. Turn off task accounting.

   # acctadm -x task

4. Turn off flow accounting.

   # acctadm -x flow

5. Turn off network management accounting.

   # acctadm -x net

6. Verify that task accounting, process accounting, flow and network accounting have been turned off.

   # acctadm Task accounting: inactive Task accounting file: none Tracked task resources: none Untracked task resources: extended Process accounting: inactive Process accounting file: none Tracked process resources: none Untracked process resources: extended Flow accounting: inactive Flow accounting file: none Tracked flow resources: none Untracked flow resources: extended Net accounting: inactive Net accounting file: none Tracked Net resources: none Untracked Net resources: extended