Three accounting-related programs are presented here, and a fourth is merely linked to.
The programs:
The first is acctdump, on which accounting-piece-of-cake depends. .
acctdump is for partially dumping AIX's daily unix accounting records
The fields output, in a columnar format are:
uid
username
cpu minutes
inferred username
inferred group name
Note that these are not the only fields in the accounting records - they were just the only ones I needed
acctdump might require porting to other OS's to function properly, but should still be a pretty good starting point - I doubt *ix accounting has diverged massively
accounting-piece-of-cake should just snap right into place once you have acctdump working, or you could put it overtop of some other program if you prefer
The third is sum-by, which has its own web page because it is not at all accounting-specific
The fourth is a Linux version of the same idea as acctdump, but with very different
output: dissect-pacct which doesn't work with accounting-piece-of-cake.
Note that accounting-piece-of-cake is intended to largely replace "AIX Cluster Accounting". I did this because AIX Cluster Accounting just wasn't working out for me; I set it
up, it sort of worked, then it broke. Then I'd try a bunch of test iterations, but each time I'd change something, I'd have to wait a month to find out if the change worked, which
is just silly.
Then I wrote acctdump, accounting-piece-of-cake, and sum-by in a couple of hours - and it was like stopping hitting yourself in the head with a hammer.
, which depends on acctdump and sum-by
