Enabling process accounting on VM

[KwerriK]

Hello,

I would like to enable process accounting on our VPS which runs on OpenVZ so that I can more easily detect issues on the VPS.

To this end, I have installed the psacct tool.

Unfortunately, when I try to start the tool by running

service psacct start

I get the following error:

Starting process accounting: accton: Operation not permitted
[FAILED]

I have searched the internet, and it turns out that OpenVZ does not allow process accounting by default, and it needs to be enabled via the machine that is hosting the VM.

The only interface I have to the host machine is the Parallels UI; can someone explain how I would turn on process accounting from there?

 

[abdi]

It's a feature request that has already been pushed through at OpenVZ. More here

https://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1380

 

[KwerriK]

It's a feature request that has already been pushed through at OpenVZ. More here

https://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1380

Hello Abdi,

I read the feature request at the link you pointed me to, but it's not clear to me how I enable the CAP_SYS_PACCT capability on my container.

 

[Faris Raouf]

Unfortunately this isn't something you can do yourself.

Your VPS provider would need to make the change, assuming they are willing to do so and are using the required versions of everything.