The location of the account file(s) is set at compile time from the values in 'files.h', which is created by 'configure', which derives the values from 'configure.ac'. Attached is a patch to 'configure.ac' to define the location of pacct as '/var/log/account/pacct'. Applied the patch and ran 'autoconf' to create the new 'configure' script.
--- configure.ac.bak 2010-05-09 01:36:39.000000000 -0400 +++ configure.ac 2010-05-09 01:40:48.000000000 -0400 @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ #ifndef ACCT_FILE # if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__linux__) -# define ACCT_FILE "/var/account/pacct" +# define ACCT_FILE "/var/log/account/pacct" # else # if defined(__NetBSD__) # define ACCT_FILE "/var/account/acct" @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ #ifndef SAVACCT_FILE # if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__NetBSD__) || defined(__linux__) -# define SAVACCT_FILE "/var/account/savacct" +# define SAVACCT_FILE "/var/log/account/savacct" # else # if defined(sun) || defined(AMIX) # define SAVACCT_FILE "/var/adm/savacct" @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ #ifndef USRACCT_FILE # if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__NetBSD__) || defined(__linux__) -# define USRACCT_FILE "/var/account/usracct" +# define USRACCT_FILE "/var/log/account/usracct" # else # if defined(sun) || defined(AMIX) # define USRACCT_FILE "/var/adm/usracct"
