Re: acct going berserk!
Quoting Wayne Topa (wtopa@mindspring.com):
> Quoting Max(maxk@chinook.stanford.edu):
> > Has anyone else noticed their /var/account/pacct files growing out of
> > control? Mine are reaching over 75 MB every day! Is there any way to
> > figure out why they are so huge? I have a suspicion that bigbrother
> > may have something to do with it, but I don't know if that's the
> > case. Any clues?
>
> No clue but a question. I am getting bounced mail refering to these
> files so I looked into it. I have 5 files in /var/account/, largest
> is 28 bytes. What the hey are they? apropos doesn't have a clue,
> rgreppin /usr/doc shows nothing either.
Yes, I'm afraid I've never reported this as a bug, but have
instead just purged acct as I don't really need it. Version 6.2-4
used to do it in bo, and I tried whatever was in hamm and it did too.
On my system, /var/account/pacct suddenly grows out of control
until the disk is full (within a few minutes) and all the daemons
start bleating (shared partition for home,tmp,var). After removing
the file, I have to fsck to reclaim the space (thousands of fixes
scream past on the console). Then I remove acct and forget about it
until a new distribution appears.
Are you runing hamm or slink (i.e. do I have to try again)?
Cheers,
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