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Date:      Thu, 5 Feb 1998 18:30:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Revamping /etc/daily, weekly, monthly 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980205182528.4193C-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <199802051145.WAA00456@word.smith.net.au>

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On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Mike Smith wrote:

> > Does anyone have any comments on my re-vamp of /etc/daily and friends,
> > if you rememeber it was called bev? The original thread provoked
> > some discussion so someone must care!
> 
> I think that, on the whole, it's obsoleted by the /etc/periodic stuff 
> in -current.  Have you looked at this?

  Both are buggy in how login accounting is done.  That is, the monthly
login accounting report is only for a partial month.

  The best fix for -stable is to move the rotation of wtmp to /etc/monthly
from newsyslog.conf

> -- 
> \\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
> \\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
> \\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
> \\  end it's only with yourself.  \\ 

Tom




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