Bug#1738: `errors' in /usr/info/accounting

["Susan G. Kleinmann" <sgk@soos.tiac.net>]

Package: acct
Version: 5-12

There are inconsistencies in the documentation of the paths of
accouting files.

The info page for 'accounting' says that the files of interest are:
/usr/adm/wtmp     <== records for each log in and log out
/usr/adm/acct     <== records each command that was run
/usr/adm/usracct  <== summary of info in /usr/adm/acct by user
/usr/adm/savacct  <== summary of info in /usr/adm/acct by command

The wtmp(5) man page also report on /var/adm/wtmp and /var/adm/utmp.

But:
--login appears to be writing its accounting output to
    /var/log/wtmp

--the default cron.daily sends 'accton' and 'savelog' output to
    /var/account/pacct
  and lastcomm appears to be reading its input from that file.

--the default cron.monthly sends 'ac' and 'last' output to
    /var/log/wtmp.report

--sa summarizes info from /var/account/pacct into /var/account/savacct
   and /var/account/usracct, respectively.

The problems in the accounting info page occur both in the Preface and in
the individual sections on each of the commands.

(In the Subject line, I used 'error' in quotes, since I don't know what
the Debian policy is re: customizing the man pages for the Debian
distribution.)

I use dpkg 1.0.3-0, kernel 1.2.13-4, libc 4.6.27-6.

Susan Kleinmann
sgk@sgk.tiac.net