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## NAME
       accton -  turns process accounting on or off

## SYNOPSIS
       **accton** [_OPTION_] on**|**off**|**filename

       **accton** [ **-V** | **--version** ] [ **-h** | **--help** ]

## DESCRIPTION
       **accton** _filename_ turns on process accounting.

## OPTIONS
### -V, --version
              Print the version number of **ac** to standard output and quit.
### -h, --help
              Prints the usage string and default locations of system files to standard output and
              exits.
       **on**     Turns on process accounting using the default accounting file name.
       **off**    Turns off process accounting.
## FILES
       _acct_   The system wide process accounting file. See [**acct**(5)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/acct/5/markdown) (or [**pacct**(5)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pacct/5/markdown)) for further
              details.
## AUTHOR
       The GNU accounting utilities were written by Noel Cragg <<noel@gnu.ai.mit.edu>>. The man page
       was adapted from the accounting texinfo page by Susan Kleinmann <<sgk@sgk.tiac.net>>.
## SEE ALSO
       [**acct**(5)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/acct/5/markdown), [**ac**(1)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ac/1/markdown)



                                          2008 November 24                                 [ACCTON(8)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ACCTON/8/markdown)