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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)acct.2      6.4 (Berkeley) 5/22/86
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH ACCT 2 "May 22, 1986"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: acct \- turn accounting on or off
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .nf
        !            13: .ft B
        !            14: acct(file)
        !            15: char *file;
        !            16: .ft R
        !            17: .fi
        !            18: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            19: The system is prepared to write a record
        !            20: in an accounting
        !            21: .I file
        !            22: for each process as it terminates.
        !            23: This
        !            24: call, with a null-terminated string naming an existing file
        !            25: as argument, turns on accounting;
        !            26: records for each terminating process are appended to
        !            27: .IR file .
        !            28: An argument of 0 causes accounting to be turned off.
        !            29: .PP
        !            30: The accounting file format is given in
        !            31: .IR acct (5).
        !            32: .PP
        !            33: This call is permitted only to the super-user.
        !            34: .SH NOTES
        !            35: Accounting is automatically disabled when the file system the
        !            36: accounting file resides on runs out of space; it is enabled when
        !            37: space once again becomes available.
        !            38: .SH "RETURN VALUE
        !            39: On error \-1 is returned.
        !            40: The file must exist and the call may be exercised only by the super-user.
        !            41: It is erroneous to try to turn on accounting when it is already on.
        !            42: .SH ERRORS
        !            43: .I Acct
        !            44: will fail if one of the following is true:
        !            45: .TP 15
        !            46: [EPERM]
        !            47: The caller is not the super-user.
        !            48: .TP 15
        !            49: [ENOTDIR]
        !            50: A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
        !            51: .TP 15
        !            52: [EINVAL]
        !            53: The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
        !            54: .TP 15
        !            55: [ENAMETOOLONG]
        !            56: A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
        !            57: or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
        !            58: .TP 15
        !            59: [ENOENT]
        !            60: The named file does not exist.
        !            61: .TP 15
        !            62: [EACCES]
        !            63: Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix,
        !            64: or the path name is not a regular file.
        !            65: .TP 15
        !            66: [ELOOP]
        !            67: Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
        !            68: .TP 15
        !            69: [EROFS]
        !            70: The named file resides on a read-only file system.
        !            71: .TP 15
        !            72: [EFAULT]
        !            73: .I File
        !            74: points outside the process's allocated address space.
        !            75: .TP 15
        !            76: [EIO]
        !            77: An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
        !            78: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            79: acct(5), sa(8)
        !            80: .SH BUGS
        !            81: No accounting is produced for programs running
        !            82: when a crash occurs.
        !            83: In particular non-terminating programs are never
        !            84: accounted for.

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