From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 5 18:48:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA00828 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 18:48:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA00769 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 18:47:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0y0dZ9-0001Ip-00; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 18:30:55 -0800 Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 18:30:42 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Mike Smith cc: Duncan Barclay , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Revamping /etc/daily, weekly, monthly In-Reply-To: <199802051145.WAA00456@word.smith.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" 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