Debian bug report logs - #1738
`errors' in /usr/info/accounting

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  Susan G Kleinmann writes:
  Susan> There are inconsistencies in the documentation of the paths of
  Susan> accouting files.

Thanks. These inconsistencies arise mainly from "Linuxisation" and
"Debianization" of the acct package. I will correct these inconsistencies in
the texinfo source for the next release of acct.

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From: Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca


  Susan G Kleinmann writes:
  Susan> There are inconsistencies in the documentation of the paths of
  Susan> accouting files.

Thanks. These inconsistencies arise mainly from "Linuxisation" and
"Debianization" of the acct package. I will correct these inconsistencies in
the texinfo source for the next release of acct.

--
Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca          http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd 

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From: Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca


  Susan G Kleinmann writes:
  Susan> There are inconsistencies in the documentation of the paths of
  Susan> accouting files.

Thanks. These inconsistencies arise mainly from "Linuxisation" and
"Debianization" of the acct package. I will correct these inconsistencies in
the texinfo source for the next release of acct.

--
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Subject: `errors' in /usr/info/accounting 
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 08:07:44 -0400
From: "Susan G. Kleinmann" <sgk@soos.tiac.net>

Package:  acct
Version:  5-12

There are inconsistencies in the documentation of the paths of 
accouting files.

The info page for 'accounting' says that the files of interest are:
/usr/adm/wtmp     <== records for each log in and log out
/usr/adm/acct     <== records each command that was run
/usr/adm/usracct  <== summary of info in /usr/adm/acct by user
/usr/adm/savacct  <== summary of info in /usr/adm/acct by command

The wtmp(5) man page also report on /var/adm/wtmp and /var/adm/utmp.

But:
--login appears to be writing its accounting output to
    /var/log/wtmp

--the default cron.daily sends 'accton' and 'savelog' output to 
    /var/account/pacct
  and lastcomm appears to be reading its input from that file.

--the default cron.monthly sends 'ac' and 'last' output to 
    /var/log/wtmp.report

--sa summarizes info from /var/account/pacct into /var/account/savacct
   and /var/account/usracct, respectively.

The problems in the accounting info page occur both in the Preface and in
the individual sections on each of the commands.

(In the Subject line, I used 'error' in quotes, since I don't know what 
the Debian policy is re: customizing the man pages for the Debian 
distribution.)

I use dpkg 1.0.3-0, kernel 1.2.13-4, libc 4.6.27-6.

Susan Kleinmann
sgk@sgk.tiac.net