How To Install psacct on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install psacct in Fedora 36. psacct is Utilities for monitoring process activities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install psacct on Fedora 36.

What is psacct

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 or dnf to install psacct on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install psacct.

Install psacct on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install psacct

Install psacct on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install psacct

How To Uninstall psacct on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove psacct

psacct Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/logrotate.d/psacct
/usr/bin/ac
/usr/bin/lastcomm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/ff859e4811086ea5a21fe94a96c6801e8b1ba5
/usr/lib/.build-id/51
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/fddab5f71080d38b8eca30b01b5d9e784831b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/54
/usr/lib/.build-id/54/216c505c5e529961cec3bd6ab11fbaed05e6f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/60
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/be8fb81faf4fa1cc552534917cf918d9965ba8
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad/72400d066bddb103bce5b2aad7d6fac35ade72
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/cf4e0ed12405ffd2c6d48dd2d0aa39a739653a
/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
/usr/share/doc/psacct/README
/usr/share/info/accounting.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/psacct
/usr/share/licenses/psacct/COPYING
/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

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install psacct on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).