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Process Accounting

The RedHat package is psacct

It is a service that must be started, ideally at boot time.

Commands to know:

  • ac and ac -d for connection times
  • lastcomm for a list of processes executed, when, by who, and how much cpu time consumed; searchable ie lastcomm dave or lastcomm ls
  • sa specifically sa -u and sa -m although this seems to update only when processes exit.
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