Re: Accton(8) fails on Sun 386i

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From: Derek E. Terveer
Date: Fri, 05 May 1989 05:46

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In article <8903191822.AA00789@matple.ncsu.edu>, henkel@matple.ncsu.edu (Chuck Henkel) writes:
> Context: Sun 386i 150X running SunOS v4.0.1
> 
> Problem: Accton(8) fails
>
> I am having problems getting the accounting cluster to work on my Sun
> 386i. Here's what I did (as superuser):
> 
> 	# cd /var/adm
> 	# cat > acct
> 	^D

Its easier to just do a ">acct" (in sh/ksh) -- just being picky (:-)

> 	# ls -l acct
> 	-rw-rw-r--  1 root            0 Mar 19 13:00 acct
> 	# /usr/etc/accton /var/adm/acct
> 	accton: Invalid argument

This rather cryptic error, i believe, indicates that accounting has not been
compiled into the kernel.  Look in your /usr/sys/conf/x file for a line of the
form:

	options		SYSACCT

If this line is not present, you don't have accounting enabled.  Sun ships
their OS with accounting disabled by default.
Add this line and then remake the kernel.

derek
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