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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!knews.uk0.vbc.net!vbcnet-gb!azure.xara.net!xara.net!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!nntp.snet.net!news.snet.net!usenet 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 Organization: "SNET dial access service" Lines: 29 Message-ID: <337F45E3.7A97@XXsnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: nrwc00-sh3-port177.snet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41229 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 -- Sonya and Jeffrey Metcalf metcalf@XXsnet.net (Please remove the nospam XX above for e-mail replies) http://ruddles.stat.uconn.edu/~jeff