Accounting shutting down?
Ross Parker
parker at mprgate.mpr.ca
Thu Oct 25 04:22:46 AEST 1990
In article <15340 at cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr at cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
|> In article <2392 at kiwi.mpr.ca> parker at mprgate.mpr.ca (Ross Parker) writes:
|> >
|> > I have a periodic problem on a number of Microvaxes running Ultrix
|> > 3.1 and 2.3. It appears that the system accounting is shutting itself
|> > down for reasons other than disk space.
|>
|> Are you getting the "accounting shutting down" messages on the console,
|> or does it just seem to stop recording?
I unfortunately haven't been checking the error log (sheepish grin). I
know that I periodically do have accounting shut down for disk space
reasons, and unfortunately can't remember what day I caught the problem
I described, so I can't look back to see if this was registered in the
error log.
|> If the problem is frequent, you my put something in crontab
|> the logs accout file size and free space on a periodic basis and see if
|> there's any pattern to this disease.
I've done this already... I run a script every 15 minutes that checks disk
space, the size of the accounting file, and the kernel variable 'acctp'.
If acctp changes (it's a pointer to an internal accounting structure), it
means that accounting has either shut down or started up in the intervening
15 minutes. I check also to see if the size of the accounting file remains
constant for 15 minutes (highly unlikely when things are normal). I mail
myself if acctp changes or if /usr/adm/acct has remained constant. To date,
the only times I've received alarms are:
- disk space problems
- nightly accounting run which turns off and restarts accounting.
This script has been going for about a week. I think this is a case of
'the watched pot never boils', as everything seems normal. Grrrrr.....
The problem *used* to be frequent!!!
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