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From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br>
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Subject: bin/5448: /etc/monthly reports are incorrect
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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: