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Using system accounting

Billing Users

The chargefee program stores charges for special services provided to a user, such as file restores, in the file fee. This file is incorporated by runacct every day.

Most locations prefer to set up their own shell scripts for this function, with codes for services rendered. With such an arrangement, an operator needs only to identify the service rendered; the system can tabulate the charge.

The monthly accounting program monacct produces monthly summary reports similar to those produced daily. (See ``Sample Monthly Command Summary'' later in this chapter for a sample report.) The monacct program also creates summary files (in the /var/adm/acct/fiscal directory) of the accounting information that has been collected. This information can be used to generate monthly billing.

Use this procedure to charge users for special services:


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