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accounting - How can I enable pid and ppid fields in psacct dump-acct?

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I am currently using the
psacct package on Centos to perform accounting on processes run by
users.



The info file href="http://www.gnu.org/software/acct/manual/html_chapter/accounting_7.html#SEC24"
rel="nofollow noreferrer">1 suggests that it is possible to output pid and
ppid depending on what information your operating system provides in it's struct
acct.



pid and ppid are listed in
/usr/include/linux/acct.h on my
system:



struct
            acct_v3
{
 char ac_flag; /* Flags */

 char
            ac_version; /* Always set to ACCT_VERSION */
 __u16 ac_tty; /* Control
            Terminal */
 __u32 ac_exitcode; /* Exitcode */
 __u32 ac_uid; /*
            Real User ID */
 __u32 ac_gid; /* Real Group ID */
 __u32 ac_pid; /*
            Process ID */
 __u32 ac_ppid; /* Parent Process ID
            */
...



But
pid and ppid are not output when I run
dump-acct:



# dump-acct
            /var/account/pacct.1 | tail
awk | 0.0| 0.0| 81.0| 0| 0|8792.0|Thu Nov 24
            04:03:04 2011
tmpwatch | 0.0| 0.0| 1.0| 0| 0|3816.0|Thu Nov 24 04:03:04
            2011
cups | 0.0| 0.0| 4.0| 0| 0|8728.0|Thu Nov 24 04:03:04 2011
awk
            | 0.0| 0.0| 4.0| 0| 0|8792.0|Thu Nov 24 04:03:04 2011
runlevel | 0.0| 0.0|
            0.0| 0| 0|3804.0|Thu Nov 24 04:03:04 2011
chkconfig | 0.0| 0.0| 0.0| 0|
            0|3840.0|Thu Nov 24 04:03:04 2011
inn-cron-expire | 0.0| 0.0| 0.0| 0|
            0|8728.0|Thu Nov 24 04:03:04 2011

awk | 0.0| 0.0| 0.0| 0|
            0|8792.0|Thu Nov 24 04:03:04 2011
gzip | 5.0| 0.0| 9.0| 0| 0|4044.0|Thu Nov 24
            04:03:04 2011
accton | 0.0| 0.0| 1.0| 0| 0| 0.0|Thu Nov 24 04:03:04
            2011


Is it likely that
there is no support in my kernel for this feature or that my psacct version does not
support this?



How can I add pid and ppid to my
accounting logs?



CentOS release
5.6




Kernel
2.6.18-238.19.1.el5



psacct
6.3.2



Answer




I just found this in the href="http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/centos-rhel-i386/psacct-6.3.2-63.el6.i686.rpm.html"
rel="nofollow noreferrer">changelog for the psacct
RPM:



* Fri Nov 13 2009
            Ivana Varekova  - 6.3.2-56
 - fix the psacct to
            deal with all acct types and
 if it is possible and wanted then add the
            possibility

 to display the pid and ppid
            number


So it looks
like it depends in exactly which release you are using.



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