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System Administration Guide, Volume 2

Stopping and Disabling System Accounting

You can temporarily stop system accounting or disable it permanently.

How to Temporarily Stop System Accounting

  1. Become superuser.

  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 crontab file for user root 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 accounting program.


    # /etc/init.d/acct stop

To re-enable system accounting, remove the newly added comment symbols from the crontab files and restart the accounting program.


# /etc/init.d/acct start

How to Permanently Disable System Accounting

  1. Become superuser.

  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 accounting program.


    # /etc/init.d/acct stop