From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 5 6:46:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov (mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov [147.155.137.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9469415423 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 06:46:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov) Received: from demios.ether.scl.ameslab.gov ([147.155.137.54]) by mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov with esmtp (Exim 1.90 #1) id 10U9gP-00069O-00; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 08:44:57 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 08:44:15 -0500 From: Guy Helmer To: Dan Langille Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: monthly accounting contains crap In-Reply-To: <19990401225409.BZHR5454377.mta1-rme@wocker> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Dan Langille wrote: > On 31 Mar 99, at 13:11, Guy Helmer wrote: >=20 > > On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Dan Langille wrote: > > > > > Today I received the first monthly run from my cron jobs since upgrad= ing > > > to 3.1-stable. And it contains stuff like this: > > > > > > =09=AB=D6=E46ftp27024 0.00 > > > =09=AB=D4=DA6ttyv1 0.00 > > > =09=ABS=DF6ftp5064 0.00 > > > =09=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 chan= ged > > due to the change to 16-character user names... >=20 > 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 Scienc= e=20 Research Assistant, Ames Laboratory --- ghelmer@scl.ameslab.g= ov Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science --- ghelmer@cs.iastate.ed= u http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message