Re: Process Accounting, logs: do I need either?

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 11:24:27AM -0500, John P Verel wrote:
> I'm getting a accumulation of files in my /var/log/ named pacct.*.gz  I
> gather that these are logs of "process accounting". And some are quite
> large -- 10 Meg in some cases!
> 
> As a standalone machine, do I need process accounting?  Do I need these
> log files?  Can I turn off process accounting and/or get rid of the log
> files?
> 
> It would appear that this got switched on with the upgrade to 7.2.
> 
> TIA
> 
> John
> 
> -- 
It is triggered by the running of sa in the file sysstat in
/etc/cron.daily
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