perl script to dump /var/account/pacct

dazdaz · 11-10-2003, 08:39 AM

As I understand it, lastcomm does not dump all of the process accounting information.

Does anyone have a perl script that does dump all of the information held within pacct?

Would be extremely useful.

I believe these header files define the information wrote to give people a rough idea.

/usr/include/sys/acct.h
/usr/include/linux/acct.h

Thanks

unSpawn · 11-11-2003, 04:49 PM

Checked "sa"?

dazdaz · 11-23-2003, 01:33 PM

Thanks for replying.

That's the problem. The process accounting file can be properly understood by using the 3 unix tools, sa, sar and lastcomm.

A perl script could do all these tasks in one.

That's my reason for asking.

Best regards

unSpawn · 11-23-2003, 03:57 PM

Since no one answered your question, and you didn't reply very fast either, I'll move this one to the programming forum. Maybe there will take pity :-]