From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 1 15:41:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A7DD1065677 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:41:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E55F08FC16 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:41:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n31FewX8067991; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:41:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n31Fev4A067990; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:40:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:40:57 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200904011540.n31Fev4A067990@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, david@catwhisker.org In-Reply-To: <20090401134126.GE31409@albert.catwhisker.org> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-chat User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.4-PRERELEASE-20080904 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:41:22 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: "April Fools" from /etc/periodic/monthly/200.accounting? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, david@catwhisker.org List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:41:53 -0000 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 > 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