Timeline for pacct file on gentoo gobbles up lots of disk space, can I nullyfy it?
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| Apr 4, 2019 at 16:07 | comment | added | unixbhaskar | Sure. My apology for being too short. I was getting the error mentioned in the post, that it gobbles up disk space like 2.3 GB and I didn't install the binary dump-acct to see the pacct file, which is a binary file. This file contains all the command run by the process, kinda command logging facility. With the help of dump-acct binary, you can clearly see the format, when the command run. All I had to do, get into the dir and fire that command against that file to see the output informative manner. This stuff can be used in security purpose too. Lastly, I can easily nullify it by #>pacct | |
| Apr 3, 2019 at 14:00 | comment | added | fixer1234 | Could you make this more of a teachable moment by expanding the answer to explain what this does and why it solves the problem? Thanks. from review | |
| Apr 3, 2019 at 13:55 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Apr 3, 2019 at 13:40 | history | answered | unixbhaskar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |