Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:47:24 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: periodic and 310.accounting Message-ID: <20001112134724.O75251@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <20001112075532.A7158@futuresouth.com>; from tim@futuresouth.com on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 07:55:32AM -0600 References: <20001112075532.A7158@futuresouth.com>
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On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 07:55:32AM -0600, Tim Tsai wrote: > I was trying to look for some accounting logs today and noticed the > periodic mechanism and specifically /etc/periodic/daily/310.accounting. > It seems to me keeping logs for the past 3 days isn't really enough I wanted to point out that the "logs" are kept for much longer than three days. The raw accounting files are only kept for three days, but I believe that /var/account/savacct and /var/account/usracct are never touched by any of the distributed daily/weekly/monthly scripts. Your accounting information will be saved forever unless you remove it. > and > the much smarter way is the method used by /etc/newsyslog.conf. Actually, > I'd prefer to use newsyslog.conf to handle the accounting files as well. That is an interesting idea. The problem with that method is that you probably want to run a 'sa -s' command right when the logs are rotated in the same way newsyslog HUPs syslogd right after it does the rotations. > My question is, how do I accommodate this desire without having to modify > /etc/daily/310.accounting each time we update the system. Seems like a > default override would be useful. This might apply to other system log > files as well. Please note that we are quite capable of changing the > scripts to suit our needs I just don't want to get out of sync with the > system. What version are you running? Have you seen the new /usr/local/etc/periodic/ insanity yet? Have a look at /etc/defaults/periodic.conf and the periodic script, /usr/sbin/periodic, to see how it all works. > PS: how exactly does periodic get called? It's not in root's crontab. Someone else already answered, but for completeness, see the system crontab in /etc/crontab. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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