insufficient length of command names shown by acctcom

[Jdamian]

Hi

I'm using acctcom to get the commands executed yesterday.
My problem is that this commands only shows, at most, eight characters of command name, for instance, if you ran 'make_recovery' it only shows:

make_rec

This is a problem because some Oracle process has similar names and I cannot differentiate ones from others.

Is there anyway to increase this value ?

Thanx in advance

[john korterman]

Hi Damian,

I think the length is defined in
/usr/include/sys/acct.h
in the line
char ac_comm[8]; /* command name */

However, I have no idea of the consequences if you change that, but perhaps others have?

regards,
John K.

[Ollie R · Accepted solution]

Hi,

In a word, no.

The 8-char limit is fixed.

However, the process name corresponds to the first 8 characters of what you see when you do "ps -e", so hopefully that can be good enough to identify individual processes.

Ollie.