Dirk Eddelbuettel writes: Dirk> I changed 'accton.c' so that it calls 'exit(errno)'. It appears that Dirk> the errno is set to '2' in both cases, ie when acct(2) reports Dirk> 'device or resource busy' (ie accounting is already running) or a Dirk> 'function not implemented' (ie kernel not patched).
My fault as I called perror() first :) Now all is well, ENOSYS or EBUSY get reported if accounting is running or not implemented, respectively. My thanks Ian and Marek! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
