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Date:      Wed, 23 Jul 1997 17:36:53 +0400 (DST)
From:      "Sergei S. Laskavy" <laskavy@cs.msu.su>
To:        dburr@POBoxes.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: accounting under 2.2.2
Message-ID:  <199707231336.RAA08396@ns.cs.msu.su>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970722050132.1505A-100000@voyager.starfleet.gov> (message from Donald Burr on Tue, 22 Jul 1997 05:10:10 -0700 (PDT))

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>>>>> "Donald" == Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> writes:

    Donald> I'd like to enable accounting on my 2.2.2 system, but try
    Donald> as I might, I can't get it to work.  I have accounting
    Donald> enabled in /etc/rc.conf, and I made sure that the
    Donald> /var/account/acct file exists, but nothing is ever written

This is a known (at least to jkh@freebsd.org and me) bug.
In /etc/rc.conf change <can't recall what> to <can't recall what>.
You can get right words by
	host% grep account /etc/rc*

    Donald> to this file (i.e. it is always zero length).  Am I
    Donald> missing something here?  I.e. is there a kernel config I
    Donald> have to add, etc.?  (I searched through the LINT config
    Donald> file but could not find any mention of accounting.)



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