SUMMARY: accounting - acctcon1

From: Sunny Siu <xxsiu_at_omega.uta.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 10:09:33 -0500 (CDT)

My original question:

> I have a problem with the system accounting command - acctcon1.
> We run system accounting every month in our site. The command
> "acctcon1 -t < wtmp.Jun95 > output" core dump. It did not happen
> for the last few months. The last line of core file list an invalid
> login date (Jan 10 - should be June), which I enclosed as follows:

        Thanks for the following responses. I got a patch shortly
after my phone call to Digital.


Saul Tannenbaum:
There are patches to much of the accounting subsystem.

Todd Acheson:
There is a new acctcon1 available for 3.0 that fixes some problems.
OSFV30-034-1 is the patch id, I believe.

Martin J. Moore:
Are you running OSF 3.2? If so, there is a known problem where acctcom
will core dump if more than 32 ttys or ptys are defined. Patch OSF320-063
fixes this problem.

Paul A. Sand:
(1) I believe there's a patch to acctcon1 available from DEC.
(2) I believe fwtmp is designed to be invoked by one of the other
    accounting programs automatically.

Hellebo Knut:
As far as I know the accounting on Digital Unices is bad/broken/not
sufficient (mark the most suitable) up to 3.2. You could, however, try the
wtmpfix program to see if things clear up.


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--Sunny Siu
  Unix system admin., ACS
  University of Texas at Arlington
  siu_at_uta.edu
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