- shivani singh
- October 11, 2021
Steps to Install psacct or acct Monitoring Tool on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Acct or Psacct is a free & open source monitoring user activity tool for linux system. can monitor the user activity & getting the information about the user performance. It provides the information about last commands executed by users, user logins/logouts details in hours by day-wise, system activity information,& individuals user information.
There are few steps to install acct on ubuntu:
Step 1: Update the System.
apt-get update
Step 2: Install the psacct or acct on system.
apt-get install acct
- Check the acct version.
ac --version
Step 3: acct Syntax & Examples:
- To shows total statistics of connect time in hours based on the user logins/logouts.
ac
- Here is the command output.
- To shows total users login time in hours by day-wise.
ac -d
- To shows login time of each user in hours.
ac -p
- Here is the command output.
- To shows login statistics time of specific user in hours.
ac user-name
ac ubuntu
- To shows the day-wise login time of specific user in hours.
ac -d user-name
- To display all system activity information.
sa
- Here is the command output.
- To views the information of specific user.
sa -u
- Here is the command output.
- To display number of processes and CPU minutes.
sa -m
- Here is the command output.
- To lists the highest percentage of users.
sa -c
- Here is the command output.
- To list the last commands executed by users.
lastcomm
- Here is the command output.
- To list the particular usage of a command by users.
lastcomm ac
- Here is the command output.