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Date:      Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:10:00 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        George Fazio <gfazio@n3gqf.us>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sa: user accounting initialization failed - FreeBSD 7-stable
Message-ID:  <44y78yr0dz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <47CB4C0F.3090402@n3gqf.us> (George Fazio's message of "Sun\, 02 Mar 2008 19\:53\:35 -0500")
References:  <47CB4C0F.3090402@n3gqf.us>

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George Fazio <gfazio@n3gqf.us> 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).



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