Bug#1497: acct-alpha-5-7 problems

1995-10-02 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel writes: Dirk> I changed 'accton.c' so that it calls 'exit(errno)'. It appears that Dirk> the errno is set to '2' in both cases, ie when acct(2) reports Dirk> 'device or resource busy' (ie accounting is already running) or a Dirk> 'function not implemented' (ie kernel no

Bug#1497: acct-alpha-5-7 problems

1995-10-02 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Ian Jackson writes: >> Please see acct(2). There is not a lot we can do about it as the acct() >> functions returns either 0 or -1. You get -1 for missing accounting >> support in the kernel, but also when accounting is already turned >> on. All I could do is to change the wording of th

Bug#1497: acct-alpha-5-7 problems

1995-10-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Dirk Eddelbuettel writes ("Bug#1497: acct-alpha-5-7 problems"): > Marek> - trying to start accounting again when it is already running gives > Marek> a message "Process accounting not available on this system", which > Marek> is a bit confusing (I sugg

Bug#1497: acct-alpha-5-7 problems

1995-09-30 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
This is a long, and somewhat belated, response. Please read through it and give me your comments. Marek Michalkiewicz writes: Marek> I noticed the following problems with the acct-alpha-5-7 package: Marek> Marek> - lastcomm and the kernel seem to disagree about sizeof(struct acct) Marek