diff -Naur acct-6.6.1.orig/dump-acct.8 acct-6.6.1/dump-acct.8 --- acct-6.6.1.orig/dump-acct.8 2013-07-31 18:56:57.000000000 +0200 +++ acct-6.6.1/dump-acct.8 2013-07-31 19:19:21.606615965 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved. +.\" Written by Ivana Hutarova Varekova +.TH DUMP_ACCT 8 "2009 December 2" "Linux accounting system" + +.SH NAME +dump\-acct \- print an acct/pacct file in human-readable format + +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B dump-acct +[\fB\-r\fR|\fB\-\-reverse\fR] +[\fB\-R\fR|\fB\-\-raw\fR] +[\fB\-n\fR|\fB\-\-num\fR\ \fIrecs\fR] +[\fB\-\-byte\-swap\fR] +[\fB\-\-format\fR] +[\fB\-\-ahz\fR\ \fIfreq\fR] +[\fB\-h\fR|\fB\-\-help\fR] +[\fIfiles\fR] + +.SH DESCRIPTION +The dump-acct command transforms the output \fBfile\fR from the +accton format to the human-readable format: one record per line. +Each record consists of severald fields which are separated by +character "|" (the meaning of concreate field depends on the +version of kernel package - with which the accton file was created). + +.SH OPTIONS +The following options are supported: +.TP +.B -r, --reverse +Print the output in reverse order. +.TP +.B -R, --raw +The records will be printed without any parsing. +.TP +.B -n, --num NUMRECS +Display only the first NUMRECS number of records. +.TP +.B --byteswap +Swap the bytes (relative to your system's native byte order) in --raw output. +.TP +.B --format +Set output format with --raw option. +.TP +.B --ahz FREQ +Set the AHZ (platform dependent frequency in Hertz) to FREQ. +.TP +.B -h, --help +Print a help message and the default location of the process accounting file +and exit. + +.SH SEE ALSO +accton (8), lastcomm (1) +