Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:40:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, david@catwhisker.org Subject: Re: "April Fools" from /etc/periodic/monthly/200.accounting? Message-ID: <200904011540.n31Fev4A067990@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20090401134126.GE31409@albert.catwhisker.org>
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David Wolfskill wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 30 lines --] > > From one of the systems here, running 7.1-STABLE as of 11 Jan 2009: > > Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 05:30:00 -0700 (PDT) > From: Charlie Root <root@albert.catwhisker.org> > To: root@albert.catwhisker.org > Subject: albert.catwhisker.org monthly run output > > > Doing login accounting: > lynette 2903.16 > total -410169.04 > david -413072.21 > > -- End of monthly output -- > > So does this mean that I have evidence that I (david) actually used > that particular computer far less than my spouse (lynette) did...? :-} > > ["No, really -- I didn't use it at all! In fact, I used it for a > *negative* amount of time, so I could use it some more and still > never have used it!" Yeah, right....] I'm not exactly sure if you expect a serious answer, but here it is anyway. Of course, the above numbers are nonsense, even the one for lynette (2903 hours would be about 120 days). Probably your /var/log/wtmp file has been corrupted. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung." -- Thomas Funke
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