It seems that the last upgrade was compiled with directory set to '/var/account', which was a very old setting which has since changed. From the source ChangeLog:
Pre Sep 21 00:00:00 1995 Ian Murdock <imurd...@debian.org> * added __linux__ definitions to files.h (we use /var/account/pacct as ACCT_FILE, /var/account/wtmp as WTMP_FILE, /var/account/savacct as SAVACCT_FILE, and /var/account/usracct as USRACCT_FILE) Note that the cron jobs ('/etc/cron.daily/acct' and '/etc/cron.monthly/acct') and init job ('/etc/init.d/acct') all refer to '/var/log/account'. The 'configure' script (created by autoconf based on 'configure.in') contains: #ifndef ACCT_FILE # if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__linux__) # define ACCT_FILE "/var/account/pacct" <=== Should be "/var/log/account/pacct" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org