The acct service and cron entries hardcode /var/log/account/pacct, but the default location for lastcomm and sa remains /var/account/psacct

[Pierre Carrier]

Binary package hint: acct

$ grep pacct /etc/init.d/acct /etc/cron.*/acct
/etc/init.d/acct: start_daemon /usr/sbin/accton /var/log/account/pacct 2>/dev/null
/etc/cron.daily/acct:savelog -g adm -m 0640 -u root -c "${ACCT_LOGGING}" /var/log/account/pacct > /dev/null

vs

$ /usr/bin/lastcomm; /usr/sbin/sa
couldn't open file '/var/account/pacct': No such file or directory
couldn't open file '/var/account/pacct': No such file or directory

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Hi,

As described in bug 682211, please install the acct package provided in maverick-proposed and verify that it solves the issue. Once the problem is confirmed to be fixed by the package in -proposed we can promote it to -updates . I'm marking this bug as a duplicate of 682211.

Thanks in advance.