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System Administration Guide, Volume 2

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