This report gives information about each terminal line used. A sample daily report appears below.
Feb 27 12:25 1997 DAILY REPORT FOR mercury Page 1 from Wed Feb 26 13:21:58 1997 to Thu Feb 27 12:25:33 1997 1 system boot 1 run-level 3 1 acctg on 1 runacct 1 acctcon TOTAL DURATION IS 1384 MINUTES LINE MINUTES PERCENT # SESS # ON # OFF /dev/pts/5 0 0 0 0 0 /dev/pts/6 0 0 0 0 1 /dev/pts/7 0 0 0 0 0 console 1337 97 1 1 1 pts/3 0 0 0 0 1 pts/4 0 0 0 0 1 pts/5 3 0 2 2 3 pts/6 232 17 5 5 5 pts/7 54 4 1 1 2 pts/8 0 0 0 0 1 pts/9 0 0 0 0 1 TOTALS 1625 -- 9 9 16 |
The from and to lines specify the time period reflected in the report--the period from the time the last accounting report was generated until the time the current accounting report was generated. It is followed by a log of system reboots, shutdowns, power failure recoveries, and any other record dumped into /var/adm/wtmp by the acctwtmp program. For more information, see acct(1M).
The second part of the report is a breakdown of line utilization. The TOTAL DURATION tells how long the system was in multiuser state (accessible through the terminal lines). The columns are described in Table 61-3.
Table 61-3 Daily Report Data
During real time, you should monitor /var/adm/wtmp because it is the file from which the connect accounting is geared. If the wtmp file grows rapidly, execute acctcon -l file < /var/adm/wtmp to see which tty line is the noisiest. If interruption is occurring frequently, general system performance will be affected. Additionally, wtmp may become corrupted. To correct this, see "How to Fix a wtmp File".