Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 22:47:30 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bin/5448: /etc/monthly reports are incorrect Message-ID: <199801070047.WAA07422@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Resent-Message-ID: <199801082232.OAA09757@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 5448
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: /etc/monthly reports are incorrect
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 8 14:32:21 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis
>Organization:
COPPE/UFRJ
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386
>Environment:
FreeBSD -stable, but think -current also suffers this
Default configuration from installation
>Description:
/etc/monthly generates reports with ac(8), which reads /var/log/wtmp
It's expected to give some monthly accounting. But /var/log/wtmp is rotated
from crontab, and does not respects /etc/monthly, making the reports without
any accuracy.
>How-To-Repeat:
Wait until cron rotates /var/log/wtmp just a few hours before
running /etc/monthly, and see the extremely small times reported.
It happened to me this month. :)
>Fix:
Execute /var/log/wtmp rotation at /etc/monthly.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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