I believe the previous two patches are incorrect, because the fields in
"sort +n" are numbered starting from zero, whereas "sort -k n" numbers
the fields from 1. So "sort +1" is equivalent to "sort -k2".
The attached patch to /etc/cron.monthly/acct allows for this difference,
and prevents the monthly email about this deprecated syntax.
Nick
--- /etc/cron.monthly/acct.orig 2006-06-03 16:54:40.000000000 +0100
+++ /etc/cron.monthly/acct 2006-10-05 08:56:35.000000000 +0100
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
gunzip -c /var/log/wtmp.1.gz > $WTMP
fi
- ac -f $WTMP /var/log/wtmp.1 -p | sort -nr +1 >> /var/log/wtmp.report
+ ac -f $WTMP /var/log/wtmp.1 -p | sort -nr -k2 >> /var/log/wtmp.report
echo >> /var/log/wtmp.report
last -f $WTMP >> /var/log/wtmp.report
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
rm -f $WTMP
fi
else
- ac -p | sort -nr +1 >> /var/log/wtmp.report
+ ac -p | sort -nr -k2 >> /var/log/wtmp.report
echo >> /var/log/wtmp.report
last >> /var/log/wtmp.report
fi
