How To Install psacct.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install psacct.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. psacct.x86_64 is Utilities for monitoring process activities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install psacct.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `psacct.x86_64`

The psacct package contains several utilities for monitoring process activities, including ac, lastcomm, accton and sa. The ac command displays statistics about how long users have been logged on. The lastcomm command displays information about previous executed commands. The accton command turns process accounting on or off. The sa command summarizes information about previously executed commands.

We can use yum to install psacct.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install psacct.x86_64.

Install psacct.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install psacct.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install psacct.x86_64

How To Uninstall psacct.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the psacct.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove psacct.x86_64

psacct.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/logrotate.d/psacct
/usr/bin/ac
/usr/bin/lastcomm
/usr/lib/systemd/system/psacct.service
/usr/libexec/psacct/accton-create
/usr/sbin/accton
/usr/sbin/dump-acct
/usr/sbin/dump-utmp
/usr/sbin/sa
/usr/share/doc/psacct-6.6.1
/usr/share/doc/psacct-6.6.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/psacct-6.6.1/README
/usr/share/info/accounting.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ac.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lastcomm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/accton.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dump-acct.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dump-utmp.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sa.8.gz
/var/account
/var/account/pacct

References

psacct.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install psacct.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.