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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
| commit | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (patch) | |
| tree | 9df484304b560466d145e662c1c254ff0e9ae0ba /static/openbsd/man2/acct.2 | |
| parent | 160aa82b2d39c46ad33723d7d909cb4972efbb03 (diff) | |
docs: Added All OpenBSD Manuals
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man2/acct.2 b/static/openbsd/man2/acct.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b80de02c --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man2/acct.2 @@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: acct.2,v 1.20 2021/01/03 18:10:27 rob Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: acct.2,v 1.6 1995/02/27 12:31:47 cgd Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)acct.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 3 2021 $ +.Dt ACCT 2 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm acct +.Nd enable or disable process accounting +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In unistd.h +.Ft int +.Fn acct "const char *file" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn acct +call enables or disables the collection of system accounting records. +If +.Fa file +is +.Dv NULL , +accounting is disabled. +If +.Fa file +is an existing, NUL-terminated pathname, record collection is enabled. +For every process initiated which terminates under normal conditions or +misbehaves in very specific ways (e.g. file access prevented by unveil), +an accounting record is appended to +.Fa file . +Abnormal conditions of termination are reboots or other +fatal system problems. +.Fn acct +is only available on kernels compiled with the +.Cm ACCOUNTING +option. +.Pp +For more information on the record structure used by +.Fn acct , +see +.Pa /usr/include/sys/acct.h +and +.Xr acct 5 . +.Pp +This call is permitted only to the superuser. +.Sh NOTES +Accounting is automatically disabled when the file system the +accounting file resides on runs out of space; it is enabled when +space once again becomes available. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +.Rv -std +.Sh ERRORS +.Fn acct +will fail if one of the following is true: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EPERM +The caller is not the superuser. +.It Bq Er ENOTDIR +A component of the path prefix is not a directory. +.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG +A component of a pathname exceeded +.Dv NAME_MAX +characters, or an entire pathname (including the terminating NUL) +exceeded +.Dv PATH_MAX +bytes. +.It Bq Er ENOENT +The named file does not exist. +.It Bq Er EACCES +Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix, +or the pathname is not a regular file. +.It Bq Er ELOOP +Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. +.It Bq Er EROFS +The named file resides on a read-only file system. +.It Bq Er EFAULT +.Fa file +points outside the process's allocated address space. +.It Bq Er EIO +An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr acct 5 , +.Xr accton 8 , +.Xr sa 8 +.Sh HISTORY +An +.Fn acct +function call appeared in +.At v7 . |
