acct: acct (process accounting utilities) acct: acct: This is a set of utilities which reports and summarizes data about acct: user connect times and process execution statistics. To activate acct: process accounting, create the log file (touch /var/log/pacct), and acct: then use the accton command to start it (accton /var/log/pacct). acct: Be aware that the log file can grow to be quite large. acct: acct: The GNU process accounting utilities were written by Noel Cragg. acct: acct: