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From: Sonya and Jeffrey Metcalf <metcalf@XXsnet.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Q: Is there something wrong with the 'ac' command
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 14:19:17 -0400
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Hello,

I was recently experimenting with the FreeBSD accounting capabilities
and was attempting to use the 'ac' command.  From the manual page
I see that 'ac' reads from the 'wtmp' file in the var directory
(sorry I don't recall the default path).  The file is nonempty and
from looking at it from a binary editor, I can see that it contains
the type of information that ac is supposed to give.  However whenever
I use that 'ac' command (as a regular user or as root), all I ever get
is

Total  0.00

This doesn't seem right to me.  Can anybody explain what might be going 
wrong?  I'm running FreeBSD-2.2.1 on a P133 Canon Innova Book 490CDT.
I have a P100 desktop as well running the same FreeBSD version.  I'll
test it for the same problem tonight.

Does this seem to be a bug for which I should go through more formal
channels with the FreeBSD development team?

Thank You,

JM
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