On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 09:42:16PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote: > 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 and when it doesn't! (The return code > doesn't even get set differently for the 'status' operation.)
I have proposed a different fix to the patches already attached to this bug. The init script was completely broken. I have rewritten it as part of https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-security-team/acct/-/merge_requests/8 and the 'lock' file to enforce the single shot nature of the service now resides at /run/acct.oneshot, which does not require creating any new directories at runtime. > I ask because this would affect the severity of the bug, which is > relevant during the current freeze.
