Enabling Process Accounting on Linux HOWTO

Albert M.C. Tam

bertie@scn.org

Kristin Thomas - Converted document from HTML to DocBook v4.1 (SGML)

2001-02-09

Describes the basics of enabling process accounting on Linux.

Table of Contents

1. Preamble

2. Introduction

3. What is process accounting?

4. Current Status of Process Accounting under Linux

5. Requirements for Process Accounting on Linux

5.1. Kernel

5.2. Process Accounting Software

6. Process Accounting Setup on Linux

7. Miscellaneous Process Accounting Commands