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1.1     ! root        1: .TH ACCT 2 "13 February 1983"
        !             2: .UC 4
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: acct \- turn accounting on or off
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .nf
        !             7: .ft B
        !             8: acct(file)
        !             9: char *file;
        !            10: .ft R
        !            11: .fi
        !            12: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            13: The system is prepared to write a record
        !            14: in an accounting
        !            15: .I file
        !            16: for each process as it terminates.
        !            17: This
        !            18: call, with a null-terminated string naming an existing file
        !            19: as argument, turns on accounting;
        !            20: records for each terminating process are appended to
        !            21: .IR file .
        !            22: An argument of 0 causes accounting to be turned off.
        !            23: .PP
        !            24: The accounting file format is given in
        !            25: .IR acct (5).
        !            26: .PP
        !            27: This call is permitted only to the super-user.
        !            28: .SH NOTES
        !            29: Accounting is automatically disabled when the file system the
        !            30: accounting file resides on runs out of space; it is enabled when
        !            31: space once again becomes available.
        !            32: .SH "RETURN VALUE
        !            33: On error \-1 is returned.
        !            34: The file must exist and the call may be exercised only by the super-user.
        !            35: It is erroneous to try to turn on accounting when it is already on.
        !            36: .SH ERRORS
        !            37: .I Acct
        !            38: will fail if one of the following is true:
        !            39: .TP 15
        !            40: [EPERM]
        !            41: The caller is not the super-user.
        !            42: .TP 15
        !            43: [EPERM]
        !            44: The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
        !            45: .TP 15
        !            46: [ENOTDIR]
        !            47: A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
        !            48: .TP 15
        !            49: [ENOENT]
        !            50: The named file does not exist.
        !            51: .TP 15
        !            52: [EISDIR]
        !            53: The named file is a directory.
        !            54: .TP 15
        !            55: [EROFS]
        !            56: The named file resides on a read-only file system.
        !            57: .TP 15
        !            58: [EFAULT]
        !            59: .I File
        !            60: points outside the process's allocated address space.
        !            61: .TP 15
        !            62: [ELOOP]
        !            63: Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
        !            64: .TP 15
        !            65: [EACCES]
        !            66: The file is a character or block special file.
        !            67: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            68: acct(5), sa(8)
        !            69: .SH BUGS
        !            70: No accounting is produced for programs running
        !            71: when a crash occurs.
        !            72: In particular nonterminating programs are never
        !            73: accounted for.

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