Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 23:40:59 +0300 (MSK) From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: conf/32113: 200.accounting doesn't match newsyslog.conf Message-ID: <200111192040.fAJKexd30371@bsd.chem.msu.ru>
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>Number: 32113
>Category: conf
>Synopsis: 200.accounting doesn't match newsyslog.conf
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Nov 19 12:50:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Yar Tikhiy
>Release: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Moscow State University
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD bsd.chem.msu.ru 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #1: Mon Oct 29 18:33:46 MSK 2001 yar@bsd.chem.msu.ru:/usr/src/sys/compile/BSD i386
>Description:
Currently, the out-of-box /etc/periodic/monthly/200.accounting
assumes that /var/log/wtmp.0 is uncompressed while the out-of-box
newsyslog.conf tells newsyslog(8) to compress the rotated file
with gzip(1). Consequently, the monthly accounting doesn't work.
Another problem is that I cannot see either easy for an
average user/admin or documented way to do weekly or daily
wtmp rotation and accounting. Actually, to do that one should
update *both* day and time in /etc/newsyslog.conf so wtmp gets
rotated before the accounting run, move the script to the
corresponding directory in /etc/periodic, and rename possible
monthly_* configuration variables both in the script and in
/etc/defaults/periodic.conf...
>How-To-Repeat:
See the email from a "periodic monthly" run.
>Fix:
On the one hand, the "Z" flag may be removed from the wtmp line
in /etc/newsyslog.conf. However, a typical wtmp's compression ratio
is too high to leave the file uncompressed. So, OTOH, 200.accounting
may be modified as follows:
--- 200.accounting.orig Tue Sep 26 04:04:27 2000
+++ 200.accounting Mon Nov 19 23:05:48 2001
@@ -14,18 +14,29 @@
case "$monthly_accounting_enable" in
[Yy][Ee][Ss])
W=/var/log/wtmp
+ rc=0
+ remove=NO
if [ ! -f $W.0 ]
then
- echo '$monthly_accounting_enable is set but' \
- "$W.0 doesn't exist"
- rc=2
- else
+ if [ -f $W.0.gz ]
+ then
+ remove=YES
+ zcat $W.0.gz > $W.0 || rc=1
+ else
+ echo '$monthly_accounting_enable is set but' \
+ "$W.0 doesn't exist"
+ rc=2
+ fi
+ fi
+ if [ $rc -eq 0 ]
+ then
echo ""
echo "Doing login accounting:"
rc=$(ac -p -w $W.0 | sort -nr +1 | tee /dev/stderr | wc -l)
[ $rc -gt 0 ] && rc=1
- fi;;
+ fi
+ [ $remove = YES ] && rm -f $W.0;;
*) rc=0;;
esac
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