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One of the big advantages of using psacct on your server is that it provides excellent logging for activities of applications and users.





Installation :-

for Redhat, Fedora, CentOs

yum install psacct
service psacct start

For Ubuntu Debian

apt-get install acct
service acct start



How to use psacct :

The connect time in hours is based on logins and logouts. 

root@Vishalvyas:~#  ac -p
        vishal                        9.12
        Ashish                      20.60
        Vipul                        15.80
        Anil                          17.33
        Akshay                     10.92
        pritesh                      4.10
        chirag                       8.75
        total                         168.95

Which user has executed what command on system :

root@Vishalvyas:~# lastcomm vishal

Process        Flag    Username  Terminal    Time

vim                          X vishal        pts/2         0.01 secs Tue Mar  5 10:16
su               S           vishal            pts/2         0.00 secs Tu…