> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:56:46AM +0100, Andreas Bihlmaier wrote: > > Hello misc@, > > > > a question that bugged me for quite a while: > > > > Why is the accounting in /etc/monthly? > > I reffer to these (commented out) lines: > > > > #echo "" > > #echo "Doing login accounting:" > > #ac -p | sort -nr +1 > > # > > #echo "." > > > > If I uncomment them (as suggested in "Absolute OpenBSD" to get some basic > > accounting (or just to find out HOW much time I spend in front of the > > screen). > > > > I get a report ever month, BUT now the problem: > > > > The way I read "man 8 ac" it states > > <quote> > > The default wtmp file will increase without bound unless it is truncated. > > It is normally truncated by the daily scripts run by cron(8), which re- > > name and rotate the wtmp files, keeping a week's worth of data on hand. > > No login or connect time accounting is performed if /var/log/wtmp does > > not exist. > > </quote> > > > > note that the man page was a little confusing here, since it sounds like > the /etc/daily script controls wtmp size. rather newsyslog does this. i > have just committed a fix to the page to clarify that. > > > Doesn't this mean that I only get accounting for the last week of the month? > > Shouldn't the lines above moved to /etc/weekly? > > Did I miss something, or is this the intended behavior (for what reason)? > > > > that's right. i just moved the ac(8) stuff from /etc/monthly to > /etc/weekly. of course you could also adjust newsyslog to rotate wtmp > less often. >
Thank you, one more thing I don't have to change from the base install :) That is the reason I just love OpenBSD over Linux, the base installs are way less work to "adapt". Basically add packages, configure X, some more ~/.config_files and done. Instead of find working boot kernel, compile working kernel, recompile (perhaps working kernel) find userland software that is in sync with each other.... Regards, ahb
