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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