System Administration Guide

Examples--Setting Up Accounting

The following example shows how the crontab entries that run /usr/lib/acct/ckpacct, /usr/lib/acct/runacct, and /usr/lib/acct/monacct have been added to /var/spool/cron/crontabs/adm.

#ident  "@(#)adm        1.5     92/07/14 SMI"    /* SVr4.0 1.2   */
#
# The adm crontab file should contain startup of performance 
# collection if the profiling and performance feature has been 
# installed.
0 * * * * /usr/lib/acct/ckpacct
30 2 * * * /usr/lib/acct/runacct 2> /var/adm/acct/nite/fd2log
30 7 1 * * /usr/lib/acct/monacct

The following example shows how the crontab entry that runs /usr/lib/acct/dodisk has been added to /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root.

#ident   "@(#)root       1.12   94/03/24 SMI"   /* SVr4.0 1.1.3.1        
*/
#
# The root crontab should be used to perform accounting data 
# collection.
# The rtc command is run to adjust the real time clock if and when
# daylight savings time changes.
#
0 2 * * 0,4 /etc/cron.d/logchecker
5 4 * * 6   /usr/lib/newsyslog
15 3 * * * /usr/lib/fs/nfs/nfsfind
1 2 * * * [ -x /usr/sbin/rtc ] && /usr/sbin/rtc -c > /dev/null 2>&1
20 * * * * [ -x /usr/lib/inet/ntpdate ] && /usr/lib/inet/ntpdate -m
224.0.1.1 >/dev/null 2>&1
30 22 * * 4 /usr/lib/acct/dodisk

The following example shows a sample /etc/acct/holidays file.

* @(#)holidays  January 1, 1997
*
* Prime/Nonprime Table for UNIX Accounting System
*
* Curr  Prime   Non-Prime
* Year  Start   Start
*
  1997  0800    1800
*
* only the first column (month/day) is significiant.
*
* month/day     Company
*               Holiday
*
1/1             New Years Day
1/20            Martin Luther King's Day
2/17            President's Day
5/26            Memorial Day
7/3             Day before Indep. Day
7/4             Indep. Day
9/1             Labor Day
11/27           Thanksgiving
11/28           Day after Thanksgiving
12/25           Christmas
12/26           Winter Break
12/29           Winter Break
12/30           Winter Break
12/31           Winter Break