dump-acctdump-acct dumps some of the contents of one or more acct
files in human readable form. Usage:
dump-acct [opts] files
Unless called with the --raw option, it prints a table with the
following fields, separated by vertical bars(|):
ac_commname of the executed program
ac_versionversion of the acct file format
ac_utimeuser time
ac_stimesystem time
ac_etimeelapsed time
ac_uiduser id
ac_gidgroup id
ac_mem(average) memory usage
ac_ionumber of characters transferred on input/output
ac_pidprocess id
ac_ppidparent’s process id
All times will be given in platform dependent units (“AHZ”).
Not all of the above columns will actually appear, depending on what
information your operating system provides in it’s struct acct.
--ahz hzUse this flag to tell the program what AHZ should be (in Hertz).
This option is useful if you are trying to view an acct file
created on another machine which has a different value for AHZ.
--byteswapSwap the bytes (relative to your system’s native byte order) in
--raw output.
--formatSet output format with --raw option.
-n num--num numLimit the number of lines (or records with --raw) to print.
-r--reverseRead the accounting file backwards (print latest record first).
-R--rawDon’t print human readable output, dump the raw record instead. Useful to convert between different Linux file formats (see below).
-h--helpPrint dump-acct’s usage string and default location of
the accouning file to standard output.
--byteswap and --format options are only available with
Linux multiformat support. They only affect output with
the --raw option, format and byte order of the input are
automatically detected.
Thus they are useful to convert between different file formats.
The --ahz option affects input and output (except for v3 file
format, which by definition is fixed to AHZ=100).
If you ever need to convert between different AHZ values,
use a two-step process:
First convert to v3 format with the old AHZ value, then
convert to the desired output format with the new AHZ
setting.