Debian Bug report logs -
#18314
'acct' not working under 2.1.x development kernels
Reported by: "Roy C. Bixler" <rcb@press.uchicago.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 22:03:05 UTC
Severity: normal
Merged with 24085
Found in version 6.3.5-3
Done: unknown
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
Forwarded to Noel Cragg <noel@red-bean.com>
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The 'lastcomm' command gives corrupted results on a system running Linux
kernel 2.1.87 and glibc 2.0.7. Attached is a relevant message I saw in
the linux-kernel mailing list. It seems to me I agree that a kernel
structure change would account for this problem in acct_6.3-1.
Here are some sample results:
press-160% lastcomm |head
b root ?? 0.00 secs Wed Dec 31 18:00
? root ?? 0.00 secs Wed Dec 31 18:00
scp root ?? 0.00 secs Wed Dec 31 18:00
67 ?? 65537.02 secs Fri Jan 2 06:24
root ?? 969934.91 secs Fri Jan 16 16:17
???4 24931 ?? 19005.67 secs Mon May 19 20:46
root ?? 19446351.06 secs Wed Dec 31
18:00
root ?? 0.00 secs Wed Dec 31 18:00
bin ?? 65536.00 secs Tue Feb 17 15:41
20 ?? 8877516.69 secs Wed Dec 31
18:00
Roy Bixler
rcb@press.uchicago.edu
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From: "B. James Phillippe" <bryan@Terran.ORG>
Subject: [2.1.current] BSD psacct & <sys/acct.h>
Date: 17 Feb 1998 19:27:50 +0100
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Hello,
I'm running a very current RedHat 5.0 system (uses glibc), with
process accounting. I've noted that in 2.1.x, the userland process
accounting tools are seriously broken (due to changes in the format of the
pacct file, I believe). I have tracked the problem to the existance of
<linux/acct.h> and <sys/acct.h>. On my machine both are present. I've
looked through the source to acct, and it appears that the build process
prefers <sys/acct.h> over <linux/acct.h>, and this is what is causing the
incompatibility. I have rebuilt acct with <sys/acct.h> temporarily
unavailable, and now acct tools all work like a charm. My question is,
what is the right solution? Should the acct package preference the Linux
includes over the <sys> ones?
thanks,
-bp
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Noel,
Long time no bugreport ;-) Are you still following the kernel development as
closely as you used to? If so, you're probably aware of the following
problem.
Let me know if there is something I can do to help with the Debian package.
Cheers, Dirk
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The 'lastcomm' command gives corrupted results on a system running Linux
kernel 2.1.87 and glibc 2.0.7. Attached is a relevant message I saw in
the linux-kernel mailing list. It seems to me I agree that a kernel
structure change would account for this problem in acct_6.3-1.
Here are some sample results:
press-160% lastcomm |head
b root ?? 0.00 secs Wed Dec 31 18:00
? root ?? 0.00 secs Wed Dec 31 18:00
scp root ?? 0.00 secs Wed Dec 31 18:00
67 ?? 65537.02 secs Fri Jan 2 06:24
root ?? 969934.91 secs Fri Jan 16 16:17
???4 24931 ?? 19005.67 secs Mon May 19 20:46
root ?? 19446351.06 secs Wed Dec 31
18:00
root ?? 0.00 secs Wed Dec 31 18:00
bin ?? 65536.00 secs Tue Feb 17 15:41
20 ?? 8877516.69 secs Wed Dec 31
18:00
Roy Bixler
rcb@press.uchicago.edu
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Subject: [2.1.current] BSD psacct & <sys/acct.h>
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Hello,
I'm running a very current RedHat 5.0 system (uses glibc), with
process accounting. I've noted that in 2.1.x, the userland process
accounting tools are seriously broken (due to changes in the format of the
pacct file, I believe). I have tracked the problem to the existance of
<linux/acct.h> and <sys/acct.h>. On my machine both are present. I've
looked through the source to acct, and it appears that the build process
prefers <sys/acct.h> over <linux/acct.h>, and this is what is causing the
incompatibility. I have rebuilt acct with <sys/acct.h> temporarily
unavailable, and now acct tools all work like a charm. My question is,
what is the right solution? Should the acct package preference the Linux
includes over the <sys> ones?
thanks,
-bp
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