[Bug 682211] Re: lastcomm cannot find /var/account/pacct

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Title:
  lastcomm cannot find /var/account/pacct

Status in GNU Accounting Utilities:
  Invalid
Status in “acct” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “acct” source package in Maverick:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: acct

  SRU JUSTIFICATION:

  Without changes, acct reporting utilities are unusable with their
  default use without parameters; since they expect a data file in an
  incorrect path. The patch is minimal and with low impact (just path
  changes for default filenames).

  TEST CASES:

  1) install acct
  2) run a few commands, such as 'ls', 'cat', etc. (even doing nothing after installing may be sufficient depending on the shell)
  3) run 'sa' or 'lastcomm'

  With this patch, 'sa' and 'lastcomm' should output reports of the last
  commands used. Without the patch, they should complain about a missing
  pacct file under '/var/account/pacct'.

  ---

  Default install of acct package doesn't enable "lastcomm" to work:

  <PRE>
  # apt-get install acct
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    acct
  0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 111kB of archives.
  After this operation, 360kB of additional disk space will be used.
  Get:1 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main acct i386 6.5.4-2ubuntu1 [111kB]
  0% [1 acct 0B/111kB 0%]
  Fetched 111kB in 0s (115kB/s)
  Selecting previously deselected package acct.
  (Reading database ... 125574 files and directories currently installed.)
  Unpacking acct (from .../acct_6.5.4-2ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
  Processing triggers for doc-base ...
  Processing 1 added doc-base file(s)...
  Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
  Processing triggers for install-info ...
  Processing triggers for man-db ...
  Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
  Setting up acct (6.5.4-2ubuntu1) ...
  Turning on process accounting, file set to '/var/log/account/pacct'.
   * Done.

  # lastcomm
  couldn't open file '/var/account/pacct': No such file or directory

  # ls -l /var/account
  ls: cannot access /var/account: No such file or directory

  # ln -s log/account /var/account

  # lastcomm
  bash              F    root     pts/0      0.00 secs Fri Nov 19 00:54
  ln                     root     pts/0      0.00 secs Fri Nov 19 00:54
  bash              F    root     pts/0      0.00 secs Fri Nov 19 00:54
  ls                     root     pts/0      0.00 secs Fri Nov 19 00:54
  bash              F    root     pts/0      0.00 secs Fri Nov 19 00:54
  lastcomm               root     pts/0      0.00 secs Fri Nov 19 00:54
  bash              F    root     pts/0      0.00 secs Fri Nov 19 00:54
  lastcomm               root     pts/0      0.00 secs Fri Nov 19 00:54
  [...etc...]

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: acct 6.5.4-2ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Nov 27 14:07:58 2010
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8
   LC_COLLATE=C
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=C
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: acct

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