How was it corrupted ?
I cannot think of anybody done it? I am the only one with access to
this machine?
Is acct buggy?
How may fix it?

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Friedrich Locke
> <friedrich.lo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does anybody here know what user are those numeric presented by "sa"
command?
>>
>> lion# sa -m usracct
>> sa: short read of accounting data in usracct
>> root           439         0.04cpu          157tio           4k*sec
>> _rusersd         1         0.00cpu            0tio           0k*sec
>> sioux           14         0.00cpu           45tio           0k*sec
>> 25600            1        15.47cpu            0tio           0k*sec
>> 256000           1         0.01cpu            0tio           0k*sec
>> 4294967295       406 3632383044.27cpu 108971491328tio    26607210k*sec
>>
>>
>> Which users are those 25600, 256000 and 4294967295 ?
>
> Corrupt file.  See that 'short read' warning message?  That means the
> file that ostensibly was some number of 'struct acct' records was not
> an even multiple of the size of that structure.  Something corrupted
> it and as a result interpreting the entries after the point of
> corruption gives bogus results.
>
>
> Philip Guenther

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