From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 14:53:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12516155F0 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:53:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.164.76]) by mta1-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990401225409.BZHR5454377.mta1-rme@wocker>; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:54:09 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: Guy Helmer Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:53:07 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable Subject: Re: monthly accounting contains crap Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19990331185324.RLYP5270280.mta1-rme@wocker> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990401225409.BZHR5454377.mta1-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 upgradi= ng > > to 3.1-stable. And it contains stuff like this: > > > > =AB=D6=E46ftp27024 0.00 > > =AB=D4=DA6ttyv1 0.00 > > =ABS=DF6ftp5064 0.00 > > =AB/=EB6ftp12674 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 chang= ed > 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 -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message