filename.accounts

contains a history of computer usage by user.

To capture accounting data for a specific user add the character 'a' to the 'options' attribute (9) in the 'users' file.

An item exists in the 'accounts' file for each user. The item-id from the 'users' file is the item-id in the 'accounts' file.

Accounting may be suppressed system-wide by removing the 'accounts' file.

Accounting information is gathered from the 'pibs' file when the user logs off.

'acc' is a synonym of 'accounts'.

The attributes in the 'accounts' file are:

0 user Item-id consists of 'users' id.
1 md Name of md (item-id in the 'mds' file) for the accounting period.
2 l-date Log date of the accounting data.
3 l-time Log time of the accounting data.
4 acct-time Accounting period to the second.
5 cpu Central processing unit (cpu) execution time (in tenths of seconds) used by this process for the accounting period.
6 pages Number of printer pages output for accounting period.