Enabling and Managing Process Accounting (psacct) in RHEL
Issue
- How to collect process accounting data to better understand commands executed on a system.
- The file
/var/account/pacctis growing out of control, I need to shut off process accounting or disable it from starting the next time this machine boots.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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