Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:09:01 -0500 From: George Fazio <gfazio@n3gqf.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sa: user accounting initialization failed - FreeBSD 7-stable Message-ID: <47CE00BD.604@n3gqf.us> In-Reply-To: <44y78yr0dz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <47CB4C0F.3090402@n3gqf.us> <44y78yr0dz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote: > George Fazio <gfazio@n3gqf.us> writes: > > >> I'm seeing errors from sa in my daily run output. I read the man page >> for sa(8) and some of the commands that were referenced under the see >> also section. I'm completely lost. Could anyone point me in the >> right direction? >> >> Here is a snippet of the output from the daily run output >> >> Rotating accounting logs and gathering statistics: >> sa: converting user accounting stats: Inappropriate file type or format >> sa: user accounting initialization failed >> > > Are you intending to use the system accounting functionality? If not, > you probably don't need the files in /var/account at all (by default, > there wouldn't be any). > I probably turned them by accident on while hastily going through the install. My (home) mail server had been down for nearly a week waiting for new hardware to arrive, and I probably was not paying quite as much attention as I should have been with the base install. While I do not need the accounting feature, I was hoping to understand why it is not working to broaden my understanding of how the system functions. I guess I will do some more reading and just disable it if I cannot figure it out. Thanks for the reply, George
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