How To Install psacct on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install psacct
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install psacct.
Install psacct on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install psacct
using yum
by running the following command:
Install psacct on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install psacct
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall psacct on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the psacct
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install psacct
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.