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.TH ACCTD 8 "April 28, 1999"
.UC 4
.SH NAME
acctd \- system accounting daemon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B acctd [\fB\-d\fP]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Acctd
reads accounting records from the kernel's accounting driver (/dev/acctlog)
and writes the records to a file for later analysis.  The 
.BR accton (8)
program is used to update (or create) the config file (/etc/acctd.cf).
.PP
.BR Acctd (8)
reads the config file upon startup and reciept of a SIGHUP signal.
If a SIGTERM signal is received the accounting file is closed and the
daemon exits.
The one option is:
.TP 10
\-d
Enable debugging mode.  Currently no debugging logic is present.
.SH FILES
.TP 20
/etc/acctd.cf
The configuration file.  Must be owned by root and writeable only by root.
This file, while simple text, is not meant for human editing since the
parse is simpleminded and the daemon is paranoid.
.SH SEE ALSO
acct(5),
accton(8),
sa(8)
.SH HISTORY
.B Acctd
first appeared in 2.11BSD