Package: acct
Version: 6.6.4-4
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-b...@henk.geekmail.org
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
A mail from Anacron containing:
/etc/cron.daily/acct:
touch: cannot touch '/var/lock/subsys/acct': No such file or directory
Running the initscript manually gives the same error.
(Accounting needs to be enabled in /etc/default/acct or the error will
not occur)
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
/var/lock/subsys/ does not exist on my sysvinit-based systems:
# namei -l '/var/lock/subsys/acct'
f: /var/lock/subsys/acct
drwxr-xr-x root root /
drwxr-xr-x root root var
lrwxrwxrwx root root lock -> /run/lock
drwxr-xr-x root root /
drwxr-xr-x root root run
drwxrwxrwt root root lock
subsys - No such file or directory
AFAIU this directory is created on systemd-based systems but does not
seem to get created on sysvinit-based systems.
Since it’s on a tmpfs, creating it manually would not help permanently:
# df -h /var/lock/
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
I don’t know where this directory is supposed to be coming from on
sysvinit-based systems.
Maybe the acct initscript should check whether it exists and create it
if needed?
Thanks
Hendrik
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable'), (1, 'unstable'), (1, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-15-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages acct depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.60
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u3
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
acct recommends no packages.
acct suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
