** Description changed: Binary package hint: acct + + SRU JUSTIFICATION: + + Without changes, acct reporting utilities are unusable with their + default use without parameters; since they expect a data file in an + incorrect path. The patch is minimal and with low impact (just path + changes for default filenames). + + TEST CASES: + + 1) install acct + 2) run a few commands, such as 'ls', 'cat', etc. (even doing nothing after installing may be sufficient depending on the shell) + 3) run 'sa' or 'lastcomm' + + With this patch, 'sa' and 'lastcomm' should output reports of the last + commands used. Without the patch, they should complain about a missing + pacct file under '/var/account/pacct'. + + --- Default install of acct package doesn't enable "lastcomm" to work: <PRE> # apt-get install acct Reading package lists... Done - Building dependency tree + Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: - acct + acct 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 111kB of archives. After this operation, 360kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main acct i386 6.5.4-2ubuntu1 [111kB] 0% [1 acct 0B/111kB 0%] Fetched 111kB in 0s (115kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package acct. (Reading database ... 125574 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking acct (from .../acct_6.5.4-2ubuntu1_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for doc-base ... Processing 1 added doc-base file(s)... Registering documents with scrollkeeper... Processing triggers for install-info ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for ureadahead ... Setting up acct (6.5.4-2ubuntu1) ... Turning on process accounting, file set to '/var/log/account/pacct'. - * Done. + * Done. # lastcomm couldn't open file '/var/account/pacct': No such file or directory # ls -l /var/account ls: cannot access /var/account: No such file or directory # ln -s log/account /var/account # lastcomm bash F root pts/0 0.00 secs Fri Nov 19 00:54 ln root pts/0 0.00 secs Fri Nov 19 00:54 bash F root pts/0 0.00 secs Fri Nov 19 00:54 ls root pts/0 0.00 secs Fri Nov 19 00:54 bash F root pts/0 0.00 secs Fri Nov 19 00:54 lastcomm root pts/0 0.00 secs Fri Nov 19 00:54 bash F root pts/0 0.00 secs Fri Nov 19 00:54 lastcomm root pts/0 0.00 secs Fri Nov 19 00:54 [...etc...] ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: acct 6.5.4-2ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Nov 27 14:07:58 2010 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) ProcEnviron: - LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 - LC_COLLATE=C - PATH=(custom, user) - LANG=C - SHELL=/bin/bash + LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 + LC_COLLATE=C + PATH=(custom, user) + LANG=C + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: acct
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