Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:53:07 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: monthly accounting contains crap Message-ID: <19990401225409.BZHR5454377.mta1-rme@wocker> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.4.05.9903311308470.28660-100000@demios.scl.ameslab.gov> References: <19990331185324.RLYP5270280.mta1-rme@wocker>
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On 31 Mar 99, at 13:11, Guy Helmer wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Dan Langille wrote:
>
> > Today I received the first monthly run from my cron jobs since upgrading
> > to 3.1-stable. And it contains stuff like this:
> >
> > «Öä6ftp27024 0.00
> > «ÔÚ6ttyv1 0.00
> > «Sß6ftp5064 0.00
> > «/ë6ftp12674 0.00
> >
> > Which looks like crap to me. What's going on?
>
> Did you upgrade from a 2.x system? If so, you probably didn't clear
> /var/account/{sav,usr}acct, and the size of the accounting records changed
> due to the change to 16-character user names...
Yes. I did such an upgrade this month. At present, /var/account is
empty. I suspect that's because of the month rollover. Does that make
sense?
Will this occur again next month or will the empty /var/account take care
of that?
BTW: anyone written a program to convert the old stuff to the new?
thanks.c
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