psacct files growing in size on RHEL

Issue

• On RHEL server, pact log file is constantly growing:

  $ ls -l /var/account
  total 2506865
  -rw------- 1 root root  576733376 Oct 23 15:05 pacct
  -rw------- 1 root root 1287916672 Oct 23 04:02 pacct.1
  -rw------- 1 root root   65065632 Oct 23 04:02 pacct.2.gz
  -rw------- 1 root root   62998564 Oct 22 04:02 pacct.3.gz
  -rw------- 1 root root   63113230 Oct 21 04:02 pacct.4.gz
  -rw------- 1 root root   63948928 Oct 20 04:02 pacct.5.gz
  -rw------- 1 root root   65133978 Oct 19 04:02 pacct.6.gz
  -rw------- 1 root root   67728052 Oct 18 04:02 pacct.7.gz
  -rw------- 1 root root   10403583 Apr 25  2013 pacct.9.gz