From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20021226 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:
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.