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From: betts@onramp.net (Jeff Betts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Can't get accounting reports (neither ac nor sa) in FreeBSD 2.0
Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 21:30:42 UNDEFINED
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In attempts to get 'ac' to display login accounting reports, all I end up with
is a total of 0.00.

I've confirmed /var/log/wtmp exists and is growing with each login, and
tried every command line option including specifying /var/log/wtmp
on the cmd line with the -w switch.  Results are either a single total
of 0.00 or no console output at all.

As for 'sa', I issued 'accton /var/account/acct' to start accounting, and
the file starts to grow.  But, sa never produces any console output.

My apologies in advance if I'm sounding stupid, but these have
worked for me on other platforms without trouble.  Any thoughts appreciated.