Re: ipacset

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
  >> > Cron continues to mail me every six minutes with this message.
  >> > Has anyone got any idea why, or how to stop it?
  >> > 
  >> > From: root@letdown.demon.co.uk (Cron Daemon)
  >> > Subject: Cron <root@letdown>  test -f /etc/ipac.conf && test -f
  >> > /usr/sbin/fetchipac
  >> > +&& /usr/sbin/fetchipac
  >> > To: root@letdown.demon.co.uk
  >> > /usr/sbin/fetchipac: Cant read "/var/run/ip-accounting-rules" - ipacset 
      >not
  >> > run?
...
  >It tells me that the Cron Daemon is looking for something to do
  >with ip-accounting-rules every six minutes, not finding it and
  >emailing me to say so, and very little else.
  >
  >I don't know what ip-accounting rules are. Heck, I don't even
  >know what ip-accounting is.

To find out where the command is, look at /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d/*
for a line that contains
   `test -f /etc/ipac.conf && test -f /usr/sbin/fetchipac'

To find out about the package that contains fetchipac or ip-accounting-rules
do dpkg -S fetchipac.  That will tell you the name of the package (I don't
have it installed, whatever it is).  Then you can research the package
and find out how to create a /var/run/ip-accounting-rules that satisfies
it.  From the message, it rather looks as if you need to run ipacset; so
`man ipacset' might be a good start.

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