>Number:         18628
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       /etc/daily doesn't deal with gzip'd accounting archives
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Oct 12 03:00:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Robert Elz
>Release:        NetBSD -current
>Organization:
	Prince of Songkla University
>Environment:
	
	
System: NetBSD delta.cs.mu.OZ.AU 1.5ZC NetBSD 1.5ZC (DELTA) #4: Mon May 27 23:17:55 ICT 2002 kre@delta.cs.mu.OZ.AU:/usr/src/sys.X/arch/i386/compile/DELTA i386
	That's from the system on which send-pr was run, and isn't relevant.
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	If process accounting is enabled, large accounting files
	accumulate in /var/account.   /etc/daily deals with that
	by saving the last 4 days worth, (and summarising the data
	into the summary files using sa).

	The accountig files can be very large - especially on a system
	which isn't necessarily running every day when /etc/daily would
	be run, and so can accumulate many days worth of process info.
	The also gzip very well.

	Doing "gzip /var/account/acct.?" is an easy way to recover lots
	of space on /var, without losing any information.   But once done,
	those gzip'd files are retained until some human action intervenes.
	Files that aren't gzip'd accumulate again.   Thus, after a few
	days, gzip'ing the files results in gret
>How-To-Repeat:
	/etc/rc.d/accounting forcestart	;# if not enabled already
	gzip /var/account/acct.?
	sleep 345600 ; # 4 days
	ls -l /var/account

>Fix:
	The patch appended has /etc/daily notice if the accunting archive
	files have been gzip'd, and if so, processes them gzip'd.   It doesn't
	add functionality to decide the files should be gzip'd, that remains
	for the user to do manually.

--- daily	Mon Jan 28 05:08:50 2002
+++ /etc/daily	Sat Oct 12 11:45:50 2002
@@ -115,11 +115,20 @@
 if checkyesno purge_accounting && [ -f /var/account/acct ]; then
 	echo ""
 	echo "Purging accounting records:"
-	mv /var/account/acct.2 /var/account/acct.3 2>/dev/null
-	mv /var/account/acct.1 /var/account/acct.2 2>/dev/null
-	mv /var/account/acct.0 /var/account/acct.1 2>/dev/null
+	if [ -f /var/account/acct.0.gz ]; then
+		mv /var/account/acct.2.gz /var/account/acct.3.gz 2>/dev/null
+		mv /var/account/acct.1.gz /var/account/acct.2.gz 2>/dev/null
+		mv /var/account/acct.0.gz /var/account/acct.1.gz 2>/dev/null
+	else
+		mv /var/account/acct.2 /var/account/acct.3 2>/dev/null
+		mv /var/account/acct.1 /var/account/acct.2 2>/dev/null
+		mv /var/account/acct.0 /var/account/acct.1 2>/dev/null
+	fi
 	cp /var/account/acct /var/account/acct.0
 	sa -sq
+	if [ -f /var/account/acct.1.gz ]; then
+		gzip /var/account/acct.0
+	fi
 fi
 
 if checkyesno run_calendar; then
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