Starting accounting

[Bill Heiser]

In article <1007 at oscsunb.osc.edu> raghu at osc.edu (Raghu Machiraju) writes:
>I have a Sun-3/260 running SunOS 4.0.3 and I would like to start
>accounting. The /etc/rc file has the lines
>		if [ -f /var/adm/acct ]; then
>			accton /var/adm/acct ; echo ( --- etc ---
>		fi
>However I could never get accounting started. Trying to use the
>command accton outside /etc/rc did not yield success, since I 
>got invalid option on accton /var/adm/acct.  "/var/adm/acct"

It sounds like you probably don't have ACCOUNTING enabled in your kernel.
You need to rebuild the kernel, making sure that the ACCOUNTING line
is uncommented in the config file.

Bill


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