docs/65071: accton.8 patch

[Marc Silver]

>Number:         65071
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       accton.8 patch
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 02 04:10:16 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Marc Silver
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD riffraff.plig.net 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #5: Wed Mar 3 16:21:56 GMT 2004 keet at riffraff.plig.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/RIFFRAFF i386


>Description:
	The man page for accton(8) does not mention that the accounting 
	file must exist prior to starting process accounting.

>How-To-Repeat:
	man 8 accton

	accton /tmp/a_random_file_name
>Fix:

	Apply the following patch:

--- accton.8.orig	Fri Apr  2 13:58:57 2004
+++ accton.8	Fri Apr  2 14:00:20 2004
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@
 .Xr sa 8
 command may be used to examine the accounting records.
 If no arguments are given, system accounting is disabled.
+.Pp
+The
+.Ar acctfile
+specified in the argument must exist prior to starting
+system accounting, or
+.Nm
+will return an error.
 .Sh FILES
 .Bl -tag -width /var/account/acct
 .It Pa /var/account/acct
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