On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 04:24:43PM +0100, Solene Rapenne wrote:
> reading accton(8) it's not clear that if you
> enable it you need to restart the system for
> accounting to be effective.
>
> Here is a change to add the explanation, but
> I'm not sure if the wording is correct.
>
hi. i think the text that follows is really trying to say the same thing
(you enable it at boot, so until you boot it isn;t enabled). we could
just try to make that one bit of text a bit clearer:
.Nm
should be enabled at boot time, either by running
.Dq rcctl enable accounting
or by setting
.Dq accounting=YES
in
.Xr rc.conf.local 8 .
sth like that?
jmc
> Index: accton.8
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/reposync/src/usr.sbin/accton/accton.8,v
> retrieving revision 1.11
> diff -u -p -r1.11 accton.8
> --- accton.8 10 Nov 2019 20:51:53 -0000 1.11
> +++ accton.8 30 Oct 2020 15:22:14 -0000
> @@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ causes system accounting information for
> to be placed at the end of the file.
> If no argument is given, accounting is turned off.
> .Pp
> +Accounting is done if it was enabled when system booted.
> +If you activate accounting, a reboot is required for it to become
> +effective.
> +.Pp
> To have
> .Nm
> enabled at boot time, use
>
