AIX 5L Problem Determination - IBM Redbooks

9. To submit the edited cron file, type:
# /crontab /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
6.5.2 Setting up disk-usage accounting
The dodisk command initiates disk-usage accounting by calling the diskusg
command and the acctdisk command. If you specify the -o flag with the dodisk
command, a more thorough but slower version of disk accounting by login
directory is initiated using the acctdusg command. Normally, the cron daemon
runs the dodisk command. Syntax for this command is:
/usr/sbin/acct/dodisk [ -o ] [ File ... ]
The -o flag calls the acctdusg command, instead of the diskusg command, to
initiate disk accounting by login directory.
By default, the dodisk command does disk accounting only on designated files
with stanzas in the /etc/filesystems file and that contain the attribute
account=true. If you specify file names with the File parameter, disk accounting
is done on only those files.
If you do not specify the -o flag, the file parameter should contain the special file
names of mountable file systems. If you specify both the -o flag and the file
parameter, the files should be mount points of mounted file systems.
Note: You should not share accounting files among nodes in a distributed
environment. Each node should have its own copy of the various accounting
files.
This command should grant execute (x) access to members of the adm group
only.
To start automatic disk-usage accounting, add the following to the
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root file:
0 2 * * 4 /usr/sbin/acct/dodisk
This example shows the instructions that the cron daemon will read and act
upon. The dodisk command will run at 2 a.m. (0 2) each Thursday (4). This
command is only one of the accounting instructions normally given to the cron
daemon.
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