Bug#1023810: Workaround

2025-06-25 Thread Andrew Bower
Hi Alex, On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 10:57:36PM +0500, Alex Volkov wrote: > > (I got my /var stuffed with ever-growing /var/log/pacct as the rotation > stopped I couldn't reproduce this behaviour. So far as I can tell, the current 'lockfile' implementation is entirely cosmetic, both when it works

Bug#1023810: Workaround

2023-08-18 Thread Alex Volkov
As a workaround, set LOCKFILE=/var/lock/acct in your /etc/defaults/acct. Editing /etc/init.d/acct directly is less desirable, as Debian maintainters feeling too righteous are known to delete init.d scripts they deemed "obsolete" without any warning, while config files in /etc/defaults are relat