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From: davel@bedbug.arc.nasa.gov (Dave Liebreich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: keeping wtmp
Message-ID: <DAVEL.91Feb8084014@bedbug.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 8 Feb 91 16:40:14 GMT
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In-Reply-To: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca's message of 8 Feb 91 04:19:52 GMT

In article <1298@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
   In article <194.27ac936a@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu> lubkt@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu writes:
   >Is it true that the accounting program is resetting my wtmp?

   Probably.  The System V accounting certainly does, and the Sun accounting
   is presumably summarizing it too.

   >I want retain wtmp records for a period longer than a day.

   Study the accounting software - it's probably already keeping
   wtmp records in a more compressed form.


I must have missed the original post.  On our Sun, I have modified the
4.1 accounting scripts to append each night's wtmp to
/var/adm/acct/wtmplog - diff follows.

Good Luck

*** runacct.orig	Tue Sep 18 13:59:53 1990
--- runacct	Tue Sep 18 14:01:05 1990
***************
*** 337,342 ****
--- 337,345 ----
  rm -f nite/ptacct*.${_date} nite/ctacct.${_date}
  rm -f nite/wtmp.${_date} nite/wtmperror${_date} nite/active${_date}
  mv nite/tmpwtmp nite/owtmp
+ # davel 9/18/90
+ cat nite/owtmp >> wtmplog
+ # davel 9/18/90
  echo "system accounting completed at `date`" >> ${_active}
  logger -p daemon.err  "********** SYSTEM ACCOUNTING COMPLETED **********"
  echo "COMPLETE" > ${_statefile}
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