From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 18 07:38:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA29083 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 07:38:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA29072 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 07:38:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from ragnet.demon.co.uk ([158.152.46.40]) by post.mail.demon.net id aa2010342; 18 Mar 98 13:27 GMT Received: from dmlb by ragnet.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0yFGaN-0007PG-00; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:00:39 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:00:39 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay To: Tom Subject: Re: Revamping /etc/daily, weekly, monthly Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Duncan Barclay , Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On 06-Feb-98 Tom wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > >> > Does anyone have any comments on my re-vamp of /etc/daily and friends, >> > if you rememeber it was called bev? The original thread provoked >> > some discussion so someone must care! >> >> I think that, on the whole, it's obsoleted by the /etc/periodic stuff >> in -current. Have you looked at this? > > Both are buggy in how login accounting is done. That is, the monthly > login accounting report is only for a partial month. > > The best fix for -stable is to move the rotation of wtmp to /etc/monthly > from newsyslog.conf > >> -- >> \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith >> \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au >> \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org >> \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ > > Tom > --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message