Ubuntu
acct package

process accounting needs to create /var/log/account/pacct

Bug #81611 reported by Achim Oppelt on 2007-01-26

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	acct (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #392045
	acct (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	ville palo

Bug Description

Binary package hint: acct

Neither the acct(2) system call nor the accton(8) program provided by acct-6.3.99+6.4pre1 create the accounting file, causing no accounting information to be written.

The simplest fix is to add a touch command to /etc/init.d/acct:

--- acct-6.3.99+6.4pre1/debian/init.d 2007-01-26 11:09:25.000000000 +0100
+++ /etc/init.d/acct 2007-01-26 11:05:53.000000000 +0100
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
set +e

echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
+ touch "$ACCT_LOGFILE"
/usr/sbin/accton "$ACCT_LOGFILE" 2>/dev/null

rv=$?

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Achim Oppelt (achim-oppelt) wrote on 2007-01-26:

Fix postinst and postrm scripts to make them consistent with the default path in /etc/default/acct Edit (972 bytes, text/plain)

Actually, the bug is probably in the postinst script, which creates /var/account/pacct instead of /var/log/account/pacct as specified in /etc/default/acct. So use the attached patch instead.

(The cron.daily script will recreate the pacct file, but only if it exists)

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ville palo (vi64pa) wrote on 2007-01-26:

Did this happen on edgy?

There is similiar debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392045
and it has been marked fixed in version Fixed in version /6.4~pre1-1 which is inluded in feisty.