.TH DUMP-ACCT 8 "2002 March 23"
.SH NAME
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dump-acct \- print an acct/pacct file in human-readable format
.SH SYNOPSIS
.TP
.B dump-acct
[
.B \-r
|
.B \-\-reverse
]
.br
[
.B \-R
|
.B \-\-raw
]
.br
[
.B \-n
|
.B \-\-num
.I recs
]
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[
.B \-h
|
.B \-\-help
]
[
.I files
]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
.B dump-acct
.I filename
prints a list of all executed processes.  This list is written by the kernel
which must be compiled with BSD process accounting enabled.
It must be started with
.BR accton (8).
.LP
All fields are separated by vertical lines.  The fields are:
.IR command ,
.IR "user time" ,
.IR "system time" ,
.IR "effective time" ,
.IR uid ,
.IR gid ,
.IR memory ,
.IR io ,
.IR time .
User, system and effective times are ticks per second.  One tick is
usually 1/100 of a second.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-r, \-\-reverse
Start printing from last records.
.TP
.B \-R, \-\-raw
Print raw records, not human-readable.
.TP
.B \-n, \-\-num recs
Number of lines to print.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Prints the usage string and default locations of system files to
standard output and exits.
.SH FILES
.TP
.I pacct
The system wide process accounting file.  See
.BR acct (5)
(or
.BR pacct (5))
for further details.
.LP
.SH AUTHOR
The GNU accounting utilities were written by Noel Cragg
<noel@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.  The man page was written
by Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> for Debian GNU systems (but may be
used by others).
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR lastcomm (1),
.BR acct (2),
.BR acct (5),
.BR accton (8),
.BR sa (8)