Bug 81795 - acct conversions broken on ia64
Summary: acct conversions broken on ia64
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification: Red Hat
Component: psacct
Version: 2.1
Hardware: ia64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Charlie Bennett
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URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-14 02:51 UTC by dann frazier
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:06 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-09-27 16:58:50 UTC
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Description dann frazier 2003-01-14 02:51:57 UTC 
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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:
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.
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