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psaccounter

psaccounter

Write accounting information from the ParaStation psid to the accounting files.

Synopsis

psaccounter [ -e | --extend ] [ -d | --debug=

pattern

] [ -F | --foreground ] [ -l | --logdir=

dir

] [ -f | --

logfile=

filename

] [ -p | --logpro ] [ -c | --dumpcore ] [ --coredir=

dir

] [ -v | --version ] [ -? | --help ] [--usage]

Description

The command psaccounter collects information about jobs from the ParaStation psid daemon and writes
this information to the accounting files. For each day, a particular file called

yyyymmdd

is created within

the accounting directory

/var/account

.

The psaccounter is typically started by the psid(8) using the pseudo hardware configuration

accounter

entry within

parastation.conf

.

Options

-e

,

--extend

Write extended information to the accounting file. In addition to entries for job terminations, it will also
record job queue, start and delete information.

-d

,

--debug=flag

Print debug information.

Pattern

can be a combination of the following bits:

Pattern

Description

0x010

More warning messages

0x020

Show process information (start, exit)

0x040

Show received messages

0x080

Very verbose output

0x100

Show node information on startup

Table 5. Psaccounter debug flags

As the accounter is typically not run directly, but started by the psid(8), the start
script

/opt/parastation/config/ps_acc

should be modified to enable this

debugging facilities.

-F

,

--foreground

Don't fork and go to background.

-l

,

--logdir=accountdir

Create accounting files within directory

accountdir

. Using

-

, all accounting information is written to

stdout.

-f

,

--logfile=filename

Write debug and error messages to

filename

. Using

-

as filename, messages are written to stdout.

By default, all debug and error messages are sent to syslog.

-p

,

--logpro=command

Define a post processing command for accounting files. If defined, this command is called everytime a
new accounting file is created. The filename of the current accounting file is appended to the command.