2006
acct (6.4~pre1-3) unstable; urgency=medium
* Adapted the patch from Dean Gaudet <dean-debian@arctic.org> to add lastcomm -f - stdin and --forwards support to current acct (Closes: #262583). * Fixed cron.monthly to not process the non-rotated logfile twice if the rotated one isn't existing (Closes: #51796).
-- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2006 13:55:00 +0100
acct (6.4~pre1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* Forgot to remove unused var in init.d (Closes: #397134).
-- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2006 13:55:00 +0100
acct (6.4~pre1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New email address.
* Hardcoding location of the log files, using environment variables does not
work for all binaries (Closes: #377835, #380744, #385626, #392045, #396444).
* Adjusted init.d script to log to syslog directly as suggested by
Gian Piero Carrubba <gpcarrubba@libero.it> (Closes: #208939).
* Updated sort call in cron.monthly to new syntax as found out by
Gilles Mocellin <gilles.mocellin@free.fr> and others
(Closes: #375712, #381492).
* Updated ac call in cron.monthly to process both $WTMP and /var/log/wtmp.1
(Closes: #324910).
* Fixed spelling mistake in default (Closes: #392023).
* Fixed spelling mistake and incompleteness in dump-acct.8 (Closes: #392134).
-- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Sat, 4 Nov 2006 10:10:00 +0100
acct (6.3.99+6.4pre1-4) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed typo in init.d (Closes: #361109, #361109).
-- Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net> Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:37:00 +0200
acct (6.3.99+6.4pre1-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Storing logging information for a month instead of a week (Closes: #271466). * Rewritten init.d and fixed accton call in init.d (Closes: #361109, #361109). * Using /etc/default/acct now to store settings (Closes: #219194, #353034, #361111). * Fixed manpage error (Closes: #360098, #364589)
-- Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net> Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:53:00 +0200
acct (6.3.99+6.4pre1-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed useless debconf message (Closes: #358698). * Removed last documentation (Closes: #360302).
-- Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net> Sun, 28 May 2006 05:36:00 +0200
acct (6.3.99+6.4pre1-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New maintainer (Closes: #357362). * New upstream release: - supporting v3 file format (Closes: #289648, #291154, #327134) * Redone debian directory: - added watch file. - corrected copyright file (Closes: #290052). - fixed debconf depends (Closes: #331731). - removed references to non-existing pacct in dump-acct.8 (Closes: #293837). - removed dpatches: one was merged upstream, manpages are broken-out, and /usr/bin/last ist removed after compilation (less intrusive). - added Czech debconf translation (Closes: #282320, #287291). - added Finnish debconf translation (Closes: #303851). - added Vietnamese debconf translation (Closes: #307597). - updated Dansk debconf translation (Closes: #241243). - updated German debconf translation (Closes: #314136). * Acknowledge NMU: - fixed gzipped logfile handling in cron.monthly (Closes: #187538, #208220, #212961). - adjusted logfile path for logger call in init.d (Closes: #208939).
-- Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net> Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:38:00 +0100
2004
acct (6.3.5-39) unstable; urgency=low
* Acknowledging NMU's. Thanks. (closes: #187539, #198581, #198581) * Added Co-Maintainer (me) to Uploaders field. * Added/updated polish, greek, portuguese, japanese translations. (closes: #208954, #229531, #216200, #222063, #229499, #229523) * Bumped Standars-Version to 3.6.1.
-- Andrés Roldán <aroldan@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 2004 23:02:22 +0000
acct (6.3.5-38.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix gzip support in cron.monthly to not delete/recreate the wtmp file
(gunzip: /var/log/wtmp.1 already exists; not overwritten)
-- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 2004 12:00:00 -0800
2003
acct (6.3.5-38.1) unstable; urgency=low
* NMU with maintainer consent * Handled gzipped wtmp file. Closes: #187539. Thanks Tero Tilus * Switch to po-debconf templates. Closes: #198581 * Added danish templates translation (converted to gettext). Closes: #174728
-- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 16:32:05 +0200
acct (6.3.5-38) unstable; urgency=low
* New maintainer (closes: #177233). * Package builded from the scratch. * Fixed danish debconf template. * Fixed broken output on ia64 and alpha (closes: #169099).
-- Luis Bustamante <luferbu@fluidsignal.com> Sun, 19 Jan 2003 01:26:12 -0500
acct (6.3.5-37) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/dump-acct.8: Clarified meaning of time field (Closes: #177020)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Fri, 17 Jan 2003 19:22:55 -0600
acct (6.3.5-36) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/template: Added new debconf text in Danish (Closes: #174727) * debian/control: Upped debconf versioned Depends to ">= 1.2.9" (lintian) * debian/control: Small editing in Description (lintian)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Wed, 1 Jan 2003 08:56:23 -0600
2002
acct (6.3.5-35) unstable; urgency=low
* etc/init.d/acct: Applied patch by ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de to rely only on 'uname -r' as 'uname -a' fails on hppa (Closes: 165535)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Sun, 20 Oct 2002 19:17:43 -0500
acct (6.3.5-34) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/control: s|Debian Linux|Debian GNU/Linux| (Closes: #150886) * debian/rules: Move #DEBHELPER# to end so that /etc/init.d/acct is called after modes/owner chg on /var/account/pacct (Closes: #153905)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jul 2002 19:44:05 -0500
acct (6.3.5-33) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/cron.monthly: Test for /var/log/wtmp.1 (Closes: #146918)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 12:20:57 -0500
acct (6.3.5-32) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/templates: Updated Russian debconf template (Closes: #136918)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 12:20:10 -0500
acct (6.3.5-31) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/templates: Updated French debconf template (Closes: #134624)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:49:57 -0600
2001
acct (6.3.5-30) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/templates: New debconf text in russian (Closes: #112535)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Fri, 14 Dec 2001 18:55:33 -0600
acct (6.3.5-29) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/templates: Changed Type from text to note (Closes: #106327) * debian/templates: New debconf text in spanish (Closes: #106935)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:17:49 -0500
acct (6.3.5-28) unstable; urgency=low
* sa.c: Applied patch by LaMont Jones which enables compilation by
gcc-3.0, the default compiler on the parisc architecure (Closes: #103147)
* debian/prerm: Don't call "/etc/init.d/acct stop" explicitly as
debhelper's dh_installinit also adds a call.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Mon, 2 Jul 2001 21:40:05 -0500
acct (6.3.5-27) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/{cron.daily,postinst}: change pacct to mode 0640,root.adm.
Thanks to Manuel López Moreno <mlm@luname.net> (Closes: #86045)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Tue, 1 May 2001 22:21:27 -0500
acct (6.3.5-26) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/templates: Added text for pt translation (Closes: #89439) * debian/{pre,post}{inst,rm}: lintian cleanups
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:54:36 -0500
acct (6.3.5-25) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/control: Added Standards-Version: back in (Closes: #86925)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Wed, 21 Feb 2001 21:01:50 -0600
acct (6.3.5-24) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/control: Added Build-Depends on texinfo (Closes: #85073) * For good measure, added a few more suggested by dpkg-genbuilddeps
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Wed, 7 Feb 2001 22:29:02 -0600
acct (6.3.5-23) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/templates: Added non-English debconf text text for sv, nl, es
and a new one for fr. (Closes: #83478, #83583, #84017, #84411)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Sun, 4 Feb 2001 19:56:09 -0600
acct (6.3.5-22) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/control: Build-Depends on texi2html and no longer on tetex-bin
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jan 2001 20:42:54 -0600
2000
acct (6.3.5-21) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/cron.monthly: Special case for logrotate (Closes: #68043)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Sun, 6 Aug 2000 16:15:23 -0400
acct (6.3.5-20) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/control: Add texi2html to Build-Depends (Closes: #67531)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:22:55 -0400
acct (6.3.5-19) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/rules: Install dump-acct.8 and dump-utmp.8 which were
contributed by Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:08:13 -0400
acct (6.3.5-18) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/templates: Apply Italian debconf text (Closes: #64160) * debian/templates: Also added German and French text
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Sat, 27 May 2000 16:28:13 -0400
1999
acct (6.3.5-17) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/control: Added Build-Depends: information (Closes: #51840)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 1999 18:42:48 -0500
acct (6.3.5-16) unstable; urgency=low
* postinst: Added db_stop upon Joey Hess' advice (Closes: #50043) * control: Upgraded to Policy 3.1.0
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Sun, 14 Nov 1999 19:39:17 -0500
acct (6.3.5-15) unstable; urgency=low
* Ah, the joys of new technology. Helping out with the whirlwind upgrade
to the new debconf, we were bitten by a simple mistake in the config
file. Thanks again to Joey Hess for a quick fix (Closes: #48861)
* control: Require debconf >= 0.2
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 20:45:05 -0500
acct (6.3.5-14) unstable; urgency=low
* preinst: Test for install-docs (fixes Lintian error) * postinst, config: Small debconf changes, kindly supplied by Joey Hess
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:14:32 -0500
acct (6.3.5-13) unstable; urgency=low
* Integrated Joey Hess' changes for debconf.
* debian/rules: Adapted to use /usr/share/ following the recommendation
on FHS transition from the Technical Committee
* debian/control: Upgraded to Debian Policy 3.0.1
* debian/control: Removed obsolete note about required kernel patch
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Sat, 2 Oct 1999 11:35:22 -0400
acct (6.3.5-12) unstable; urgency=low
* Upgraded to new Debian Perl Policy
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 14:19:41 -0400
acct (6.3.5-11) unstable; urgency=low
* Recompiled on a 2.2.* system
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Sun, 30 May 1999 11:59:22 -0400
acct (6.3.5-10) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/rules: Define -DHAVE_LINUX_ACCT_H=1 in order to use acct.h from
the 2.2.9 kernel and not sys.h from glibc-2.0
* debian/acctdump: No longer installed as it works neither with
linux/acct.h, nor with sys/acct.h (and there still is dump-acct)
* compare_kernel_version:
-- changed to use POSIX::uname, not `uname`
-- added run-time flag -d for debug mode
-- corrected return value logic (fixes #37421)
* compare_kernel_version.8: added a simple manual page
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 21:52:52 -0400
acct (6.3.5-9) unstable; urgency=low
* Recompiled under 2.2.* kernel (#18314, #24085)
* Added a simple script /usr/sbin/compare_kernel_version to test the
running kernel against a command-line argument specifying a minimum
kernel version
* postinst: test for kernel >= 2.2 and, if needed, display a message
suggesting the slink version of the package
* /etc/init.d/acct: test for kernel >= 2.2 and exit early with short
mesage if installed kernel does not match (ie < 2.2)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Tue, 4 May 1999 20:44:34 -0400
acct (6.3.5-8) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/prerm: Call /etc/init.d/acct to stop accounting as this more
robust against missing Accounting support in the kernel. (fixes #32711)
* debian/control: Added note that Accounting support has to be compiled
into the kernel for this to work.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:30:56 -0500
acct (6.3.5-7) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/control: Deleted stale text errenously left over (fixes #32616)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Fri, 29 Jan 1999 18:38:28 -0500
acct (6.3.5-6) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/{rules,postinst,postrm}: Removed support for html documentation
through menu as it is now provided by doc-base
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jan 1999 20:50:25 -0500
acct (6.3.5-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Added support for doc-base
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Tue, 5 Jan 1999 21:43:16 -0500
1998
acct (6.3.5-4) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* [cron.daily, cron.monthly] Added tests for the existence of
/usr/sbin/accton. This helps for cases where acct is removed, but not
purged, and these conffiles are still around. (fixes #29340)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Thu, 12 Nov 1998 21:32:37 -0500
acct (6.3.5-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Corrected typos in console messages in /etc/init.d/acct (fixes #23480)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Sat, 13 Jun 1998 11:57:14 -0400
acct (6.3.5-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Changed /etc/init.d/acct by adding two 'set +e; ... set -e' blocks
so that missing accounting support is properly recognised in all
branches of the script (fixes #23282)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Tue, 9 Jun 1998 21:36:16 -0400
acct (6.3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Upgraded to new upstream version 6.3.5 (fixes #3249)
* This version does not work under 2.1.* kernels which the upstream
author is trying to rectify.
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Wed, 27 May 1998 18:43:08 -0400
acct (6.3.2-4) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Changed debian/rules to not install last.1 as we don't install the
last(1) command from acct (but rather sysvinit's) (fixes #22215)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Thu, 7 May 1998 20:19:05 -0400
acct (6.3.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Removed the note regarding accounting patch for kernels younger than
1.3.72 from debian/copyright and debian/control. Thanks to Richard
Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> for pointing this out (fixes #21334)
* Added the 'acctdump' program which was provided by Ian Jackson
<ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> (fixes #20839)
* Upgraded debian/rules to debhelper
* Upgraded to Debian Policy 2.4.1
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 16:12:41 -0400
acct (6.3.2-2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Really changed /etc/init.d/acct so that logger reports to
/var/log/daemon.log and not to /var/adm/daemon.log (fixes #18763)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Tue, 24 Mar 1998 19:34:07 -0500
acct (6.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Upgraded to new upstream version 6.3.2
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:46:34 -0500
acct (6.3-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Changed /etc/init.d/acct so that logger reports to /var/log/daemon.log
and not to /var/adm/daemon.log (fixes #18763)
* Fixed FSF address in copyright (lintian)
* Redirect update-rc.d call to /dev/null in postrm (lintian)
* Added force-reload and restart targets to /etc/init.d/acct (lintian)
* Created links to ../man7/undocumented.7.gz in lieu of manual pages
for the two utility programs dump-acct and dump-utmp (lintian)
* Upgraded to Debian Policy 2.4.0.0
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 20:24:05 -0500
1997
acct (6.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Upgraded to new upstream version 6.3 (which has been promoted from
alpha.gnu.mit.edu to the brave GNU world of prep.ai.mit.edu)
* Compiled with GNU libc2 aka libc6
* Now ships the unmodified upstream source as acct_6.3.orig.tar.gz
* Changed debian/rules to also create accounting.html via texi2html
* Added menu entry for html documentation
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 1997 22:11:21 -0400
acct (6.2-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Added a variable to /etc/init.d/acct so that acct is installed but
not started automatically if this variable is unset (fixes bug #11126)
* Changed /etc/cron.daily/acct to call acct via /etc/init.d/acct and not
directly so that the new variable is tested (fixes bug #11126)
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 1997 22:18:30 -0400
acct (6.2-4) unstable; urgency=low
* The preinst no longer stops accounting during an upgrade as this is
already done by the the postrm of the replaced packaged (fixes bug#7320)
* No longer installs acct.5 which is provided by the manpages package
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Mon, 3 Mar 1997 20:57:37 -0500
acct (6.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Use logger(1) to report unexpected return calls from accton(8) as
suggested by Russell John Coker <rjc@snoopy.virtual.net.au>
* Converted to Debian Standard 2.1.2.2 (fixes #7121)
* Changed maintainer email address to <edd@debian.org>
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Sun, 9 Feb 1997 22:00:42 -0500
Old changelog format(s), not parsed
Tue Jul 9 22:33:18 1996 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca> * acct-6.2-2 release * debian.rules: fixed copyright installation (fixes bug#3738) Mon Jul 8 11:07:01 1996 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca> * acct-6.2-1 release * acct.rc: /etc/init.d/acct tests for accton (fixes bug#3513) * debian.rules: compress man pages with gzip -9 * debian.postrm: "purge" now deletes /var/account directory * debian.control: changed description Sat Apr 20 22:30:46 1996 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca> * acct-6.2-0 release: updated to new upstream version acct-6.2 Wed Apr 10 19:38:37 1996 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca> * acct-6.1-0 release * converted to new upstream version acct-6.1 (fixes bug#2069) * added man pages for the acct commands that were provided by Susan G. Kleinmann <sgk@sgk.tiac.net> and a simple acct.5 man page (fixes bug#1737) * ac.c: added a space to printf format (should fix bug#2283) * debian.rules: provide only acct, last is now provided by sysvinit * debian.control: added Architecture: field * acct.daily: exit(0) so that cron doesn't get the errno from accton.c Sat Dec 2 14:00:19 1995 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca> * acct-5-13 and last-5-13 release * debian.control: ELF release, depends on libc5 Fri Oct 13 09:41:36 1995 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca> * acct-5-12 and last-5-12 release * uid_hash.h (NAME_LEN): fixed bug#1651 reported and patched by Austin Donnelly <and1000@cam.ac.uk> Wed Oct 11 08:53:29 1995 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca> * acct-5-11 and last-5-11 release * debian.postinst: call update-rc.d (fixes bug #1622) Mon Oct 2 16:39:00 1995 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca> * dropped `alpha' from package names, now acct-5-10 and last-5-10 * accton.c: exit() now returns value of `errno' and /etc/init.d/acct examines that value; this gives better messages * accounting.texi: added a missing formatter for @item * last.1 man page addded Wed Sep 27 10:59:55 1995 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca> * debian.control, debian.README: fixed bug #1486 by adding a note that 'sa' is unavailable due to missing support in the current kernel patch Thu Sep 21 15:52:14 1995 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@miles.econ.queensu.ca> * acct-alpha-5-8 and last-alpha-5-8 * first separate release of 'last' package * changed control file for acct (fixes bugs #1415, #1131 and #969) * silent when accton fails during installation (fixes bug #1415) * new maintainer [edd: Changes made by Ian Murdock follow] Changes: * added Debian GNU/Linux package maintenance system files * added scripts to rotate process accounting file (daily), to perform monthly login accounting, and to start process accounting at system start time * added __linux__ definitions to files.h (we use /var/account/pacct as ACCT_FILE, /var/account/wtmp as WTMP_FILE, /var/account/savacct as SAVACCT_FILE, and /var/account/usracct as USRACCT_FILE) * changed last to truncate ftp entries by default (as Unix does it) * fixed a typo in accounting.texi