topic Re: acct in Operating System - HP-UX

acct

NHL — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:08:17 GMT

Hi,

is there a max size for /var/adm/pacct file ?

Ours got to 256000 bytes and now 'prmanalyze -t hourly' will not show the latest acct info and /var/adm/pacct is not getting any bigger.

There is no space issue on /var .

Thanks,
Nick .

Re: acct

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:34:36 GMT

Shalom Nick,

Try copying the file off, zeroing it out as follows:

> var/adm/pacct

If suddenly data gets written to the file than you've hit a limit.

If not, its a problem with prmanalyze, not running. There should be logs for prm.

SEP

Re: acct

NHL — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:40:35 GMT

Hi SEP,

I've already zeroed /var/adm/pacct and restarted acct and accounting is now back up to date, thankyou.

I think I need to cron /usr/sbin/acct/ckpacct to check the size of /var/adm/pacct which will in turn run turnacct.

Thanks for your help.
Nick .

Re: acct

Peter Godron — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:46:53 GMT

Nick,
are you running/cron-ing ckpacct ?

From "man ckpacct":
"It periodically checks the size of /var/adm/pacct. If the size exceeds blocks, 1000 by default, turnacct is invoked with argument switch. If the number of free disk blocks in the /var file system falls below 500, ckpacct automatically turns off the collection of process accounting records via the off argument to turnacct."

Re: acct

NHL — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:50:40 GMT

Hi Peter,

thanks for you input. I cronned ckpacct to run at midnight every day so I hope that will help keep /var/adm/pacct under control.

Many thanks,
Nick .

Re: acct

NHL — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:31:48 GMT

Thankyou.