Subject: Accounting on diskless machines
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires <pappires@vortex.del.ufrj.br>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/04/1998 05:11:26
Hello, everyone.

Why doesn't command accounting does not work on diskless machines
and causes them to panic?  This behaviour happened both on a Sun 3/60
and on a Pentium which I forced to mount root from the network.

I never noticed such problem before 1.2D (actually I can't remember
when I started to use accounting) and it is still there in 1.3E as
of Apr-25.

If it is impossible to have this fixed (if accounting uses FIFO,
for example, which is not supported over NFS), it would be nice to
state this somewhere in a man page.

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	Pappires