Bug 199501

Summary: Feature request: clipping option for 'ac'
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: P Fudd <ofudd>
Component: psacctAssignee: Ivana Varekova <varekova>
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Description P Fudd 2006-07-19 22:28:58 UTC 
Description of problem:
The ac command summarizes how much time you spend online, by reading
/var/log/wtmp.  The '-d' option breaks it down by day.

Unfortunately, ac counts simultaneous logins as working twice (or three times)
as hard, letting you turn an 8-hour day into a 16 or 24 hour day.

The sac command is a similar program, but with a '-c' option which fixes the
problem: an 8-hour day is counted as 8 hours, unaffected by how many times
you're logged on simultaneously.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
psacct-6.3.2-41

How reproducible:
All the time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sign on two sessions simultaneously for one hour.
2. ac -d username
3. see your time say 'two hours'.
  
Actual results:
You appear to have done two hours of work.

Expected results:
You should appear to have done one hour.

Additional info:
The 'sac' command is available at http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/sac/ , and
rpms for 'sac' are available at http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=3&search=sac
Comment 1 Ivana Varekova 2008-02-08 09:53:04 UTC 
FC5 is no longer supported, there will be no further updates released for it.
Comment 2 Penelope Fudd 2008-02-10 07:43:09 UTC 
The version of psacct on Fedora 7 is 6.3.2-44, and it still has this behaviour.
The version of psacct on Fedora 8 is 6.3.2-48, and it still has this behaviour. 

Try harder.