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regarding please document location of accounting file
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Package: acct
Version: 6.6.4-2
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
my package atop needs to adapt itself to acct being installed or not. If
acct is installed, atop reads from acct's log files, while establishing
its own accounting interface it acct is not installed.
Historically, the pacct file is found in various different places,
varying across distribution, so atop's upstream code does through
various contortions to find the correct file. It for example acts on
/etc/logrotate.d/psacct to find the file being rotated, which fails on
Debian since Debian's acct package uses savelog in /etc/cron.d/acct.
atop on Debian is currently growing code to parse for the savelog line
in /etc/cron.d/acct to find out the acct file being used.
Would it be possible ot have the acct file's location in a more easily
parsable location? Thanks for helping!
Greetings
Marc
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.20.8-zgws1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages acct depends on:
ii dpkg 1.19.4
ii install-info 6.5.0.dfsg.1-4+b1
ii libc6 2.28-7
ii lsb-base 10.2018112800
acct recommends no packages.
acct suggests no packages.
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Source: acct
Source-Version: 6.6.4-9
Done: Andrew Bower <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
acct, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andrew Bower <[email protected]> (supplier of updated acct package)
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Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:41:32 +0100
Source: acct
Architecture: source
Version: 6.6.4-9
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Security Tools <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Andrew Bower <[email protected]>
Closes: 922533 1023810 1043617 1096275
Changes:
acct (6.6.4-9) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Fix FTBFS with C23 (Closes: #1096275)
- use t64 with utmp(5)'s newly unsigned seconds field
* Use logrotate for daily process accounting log rotation
- avoid hand-crafted duplication of logrotate smarts
- drop daily cron job, avoiding needing an equivalent timer
- provide /usr/share/acct/hooks.d (Closes: #922533)
* Enable 'build twice' by removing upstream files
Thanks: Phil Wyett. (Closes: #1043617)
* Rework init script with init-d-script(5)
- move lock file to /run. (Closes: #1023810)
- fix status and one shot properties
- stop overriding dh_installinit and requiring syslog facility
- stop using /etc/default/acct (policy 9.3.3.1); document in NEWS
* Improve systemd integration
- provide timer for monthly report
- use tmpfiles.d, enabling removal of d/acct.postinst
- add documentation
* Add service hardening
* d/copyright:
- swap FSF postal address for URL
- add myself
- expand oversimplifications, including autotools/m4 content
* d/patches:
- lift maintainer-supplied man page from replace-all patch
- fix files listing layout in lastcomm.1
- re-apply info typo fixes to the texi source
- drop ineffective html unsplitting doc patch to generated Makefile
- refresh all patches with preferred DEP-3 dialect
* d/control:
- update to standards version 4.7.2
- drop obsolete depends on lsb-base
- recommend logrotate
- add myself to Uploaders
* d/rules:
- do not set DH_VERBOSE in debian/rules
- prefer execute_after_dh-style rules
* d/acct.postrm: make purge resilient to no logs
* Make various mechanical formatting changes to canonicalize debian/
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