The GNU Accounting Utilities
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The GNU Accounting Utilities
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Table of Contents
Introduction to GNU acct
Downloading GNU acct
Documentation
Mailing Lists/Newsgroups
Request an Enhancement
Report a Bug
Maintainer
Introduction to the GNU Accounting Utilities
The GNU Accounting Utilities provide login and process accounting utilities for GNU/Linux and other systems.
Downloading GNU acct
GNU acct can be found on http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/acct/ [via http] and ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/acct/ [via FTP]. It can
also be found on one of our FTP mirrors.
Documentation
GNU acct documentation can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/manual/accounting.html. You may
also be able to read the manual by typing info accounting at the shell prompt on your system.
Mailing Lists/Newsgroups
GNU acct currently does not have a mailing list. Announcements about GNU acct are made on the project page on
Savannah. Support requests, feature requests and bug reports may also be filed there.
Request an Enhancement
If you would like a new feature to be included in future versions of GNU acct, use the tech support manager on
Savannah to file a feature request.
https://www.gnu.org/software/acct/
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Please remember that development of GNU acct is a volunteer effort, and you can also contribute to its
development. For information about contributing to the GNU Project, please read How to help GNU.
Report a Bug
If you think you have found a bug in GNU acct, then you should file as complete a bug report as possible in the
bug tracking system on Savannah. If you would like to submit a patch, please use diff -u5 to generate the patch,
and give a detailed description.
Maintainer
The GNU Accounting Utilities are currently being maintained by Markus Gothe <nihilus [at] member.fsf.org>.
The project is managed online at Savannah. Current development is done by Ciaran O'Riordan, Manuel A.
Fernandez Montecelo, Tim Schmielau and Markus Gothe.
Source: https://www.gnu.org/software/acct/
https://www.gnu.org/software/acct/
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