Hi I wrote a while ago about having a problem with debian ac missing days. There were two suggestions. One that our Cyclades ports with six character names (ie. ttyC21) where munging things or two that the method that we were using to rotate our log files was messing up the wtmp.
I have just installed debian on my home computer. The exact same thing is happening. This machine is stable (it barely does anything) and has not showed any problems. When I run ac -d I get the below ouput (what happened to the missing days?): Mar 14 total 39.50 Mar 17 total 84.41 Mar 18 total 56.29 Mar 19 total 43.57 Mar 20 total 26.24 Mar 21 total 0.00 Mar 26 total 40.01 Mar 27 total 38.16 Mar 29 total 0.11 Mar 30 total 0.03 Today total 0.14 When I run ac -d --complain I get heaps of errors. Can anybody the debian ac command with -d and not get lots of errors? Can anyone run ac -d without getting missing days? This is a serious concern for me as an ISP that charges by the hour!! Help Please! Adam. ----> Output of ac -d --complain <---- /var/log/wtmp:1: problem: time warp (Thu Jan 1 12:00:00 1970 -> Fri Mar 14 00:59:45 1997) /var/log/wtmp:2: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:38: problem: missing login record for `tty3' /var/log/wtmp:39: problem: missing login record for `tty4' /var/log/wtmp:40: problem: missing login record for `tty5' /var/log/wtmp:41: problem: missing login record for `tty6' /var/log/wtmp:66: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:108: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:109: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:127: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:128: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:129: problem: missing login record for `ttyp1' /var/log/wtmp:130: problem: missing login record for `ttyp1' Mar 14 total 39.50 Mar 17 total 84.41 Mar 18 total 56.29 Mar 19 total 43.57 /var/log/wtmp:196: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:197: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:198: problem: missing login record for `ttyp3' /var/log/wtmp:199: problem: missing login record for `ttyp3' Mar 20 total 26.24 /var/log/wtmp:221: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:222: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:223: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:224: problem: missing login record for `tty2' Mar 21 total 0.00 /var/log/wtmp:262: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:263: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:264: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:265: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:305: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:311: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:312: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:313: problem: missing login record for `tty3' /var/log/wtmp:314: problem: missing login record for `tty4' /var/log/wtmp:336: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:337: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:338: problem: missing login record for `tty3' /var/log/wtmp:339: problem: missing login record for `tty4' /var/log/wtmp:340: problem: missing login record for `tty4' /var/log/wtmp:341: problem: missing login record for `tty4' /var/log/wtmp:342: problem: missing login record for `tty4' /var/log/wtmp:343: problem: missing login record for `tty4' /var/log/wtmp:374: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:375: problem: missing login record for `tty3' /var/log/wtmp:376: problem: missing login record for `tty4' /var/log/wtmp:384: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:406: problem: missing login record for `ttyp0' /var/log/wtmp:416: problem: missing login record for `ttyp1' Mar 26 total 40.01 Mar 27 total 38.16 Mar 29 total 0.11 /var/log/wtmp:439: problem: missing login record for `ttyp1' /var/log/wtmp:441: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:442: problem: missing login record for `ttyp1' /var/log/wtmp:444: problem: missing login record for `ttyp0' Mar 30 total 0.03 Today total 0.03