From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 5 02:06:46 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92D9E1065670 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 02:06:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gfazio@n3gqf.us) Received: from QMTA05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95088FC17 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 02:06:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gfazio@n3gqf.us) Received: from OMTA10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.28]) by QMTA05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id xAU31Y00S0cZkys550Ag00; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:05:52 +0000 Received: from mail.lunaticcafe.us ([76.117.76.193]) by OMTA10.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id xE6d1Y00J4ADx4C3W00000; Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:06:37 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=9SYQ1LsaGjwA:10 a=8CrTFH_YAqvYJCwr7zsA:9 a=cmi2q_pyc2FbsYEUNZ28y3wSCKsA:4 a=zxxVM3CWV3sA:10 Received: from [10.42.69.30] (gf-xp3200.lunaticcafe.us [10.42.69.30]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: djdagan) by mail.lunaticcafe.us (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3342A3F439 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 21:06:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <47CE00BD.604@n3gqf.us> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:09:01 -0500 From: George Fazio User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <47CB4C0F.3090402@n3gqf.us> <44y78yr0dz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44y78yr0dz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: sa: user accounting initialization failed - FreeBSD 7-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:06:46 -0000 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > George Fazio writes: > > >> I'm seeing errors from sa in my daily run output. I read the man page >> for sa(8) and some of the commands that were referenced under the see >> also section. I'm completely lost. Could anyone point me in the >> right direction? >> >> Here is a snippet of the output from the daily run output >> >> Rotating accounting logs and gathering statistics: >> sa: converting user accounting stats: Inappropriate file type or format >> sa: user accounting initialization failed >> > > Are you intending to use the system accounting functionality? If not, > you probably don't need the files in /var/account at all (by default, > there wouldn't be any). > I probably turned them by accident on while hastily going through the install. My (home) mail server had been down for nearly a week waiting for new hardware to arrive, and I probably was not paying quite as much attention as I should have been with the base install. While I do not need the accounting feature, I was hoping to understand why it is not working to broaden my understanding of how the system functions. I guess I will do some more reading and just disable it if I cannot figure it out. Thanks for the reply, George