Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 08:44:15 -0500 From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov> To: Dan Langille <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: monthly accounting contains crap Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.05.9904050836390.8009-100000@demios.scl.ameslab.gov> In-Reply-To: <19990401225409.BZHR5454377.mta1-rme@wocker>
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On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Dan Langille wrote:
> 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?
I was confused -- this must have been from old entries in your
/var/log/wtmp.
> Will this occur again next month or will the empty /var/account take care
> of that?
The monthly rollover of wtmp ought to take care of it.
> BTW: anyone written a program to convert the old stuff to the new?
Probably not. It would be a pretty easy Perl script, though.
Guy
Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Candidate, Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science
Research Assistant, Ames Laboratory --- ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov
Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science --- ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer
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