Bug#922533: please document location of accounting file

2024-01-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 08:50:35PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > my package atop needs to adapt itself to acct being installed or not. If > acct is installed, atop reads from acct's log files, while establishing > its own accounting interface it acct is not installed. The situation seems to have

Bug#922533: please document location of accounting file

2019-02-22 Thread Marcos Fouces
On 22/2/19 16:55, Marc Haber wrote: > I am not sure whether this was a brilliant idea, many local mechanisms > on existing installations might be looking for the file in the old > place. Also, migration probably needs a gazillion of tests to make sure > that nothing breaks. For how long has the

Bug#922533: please document location of accounting file

2019-02-22 Thread Marc Haber
Hi Marcos, On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 12:08:35AM +0100, Marcos Fouces wrote: > I did some investigation about the localization for pacct in various > distros and i saw that /var/account is the more widely used (Fedora, > RedHat, Gentoo...). This path is the standard even on {Free,Net,Open}BSD >

Bug#922533: please document location of accounting file

2019-02-21 Thread Marcos Fouces
o continue handling all those places in other > distributions. > > Greetings > Marc > > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:44:39PM +0100, Marcos Fouces wrote: >> From: Marcos Fouces >> Subject: Re: Bug#922533: please document location of accounting file >> To: Marc Habe

Bug#922533: please document location of accounting file

2019-02-20 Thread Marc Haber
tings Marc On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:44:39PM +0100, Marcos Fouces wrote: > From: Marcos Fouces > Subject: Re: Bug#922533: please document location of accounting file > To: Marc Haber , 922...@bugs.debian.org, > Debian Bug Tracking System > Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 23:44:39 +0100 >

Bug#922533: please document location of accounting file

2019-02-19 Thread Marcos Fouces
Hi Marc In Debian, the pacct file is located in /var/log/account/pacct while in Fedora it is in /var/account/pacct. I don't see the reason to be less parsable in that location. What is your suggestion? Greetings, Marcos On 17/2/19 20:50, Marc Haber wrote: > Package: acct > Version: 6.6.4-2 >

Bug#922533: please document location of accounting file

2019-02-17 Thread Marc Haber
Package: acct Version: 6.6.4-2 Severity: wishlist Hi, my package atop needs to adapt itself to acct being installed or not. If acct is installed, atop reads from acct's log files, while establishing its own accounting interface it acct is not installed. Historically, the pacct file is found in