Bug 81795

Summary:	acct conversions broken on ia64
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	dann frazier <dannf>
Component:	psacct	Assignee:	Charlie Bennett <ccb>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	2.1	CC:	tao
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Hardware:	ia64
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=169099
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Description dann frazier 2003-01-14 02:51:57 UTC

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Debian/1.2.7-6

Description of problem:
the acct package is broken on architectures w/ 8 byte time_t
the utilities that read the account logs improperly convert
the start date of a process.

the details of the bug, and a patch that fixes one of the instantiations
can be found here:
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=169099

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run dump-acct as per above bug report
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2003-01-22 16:54:40 UTC

Care should also be taken to ensure any fixes do not change binary compatibility.
I had to be careful with prior bugs that were reported in psacct for issues
like that.