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I am using the logging feature on 10 seperate hpux machines and seeing the below text in only three of them(thousands of them), anyone have any ideas?

invalid data: offset 05550
invalid data: offset 05430
invalid data: offset 05360
invalid data: offset 05240
invalid data: offset 05050
invalid data: offset 04730
invalid data: offset 04660
invalid data: offset 04470
invalid data: offset 04420
invalid data: offset 04300

Hi,

There must be something wrong with the pacct file you're trying to see ( corrupted ? )... try to rename it to pacct.0, for example, and start a new pacct file.

any idea what the ckpacct and fixpacct command due in the usr/lib/acct folder?

Thanks All

I renamed it and restarted the process and it immediatly started showing those errors in the ne file that was created.... I can not find anything about this online or in any book......help....

Thanks!!

Hi,

The ckpacct is for controlling the size of the pacct file and the /var filesystem, I don't know what's the fixpacct file, though...

As the problems continue, I think you should open a software call with HP.

The correct procedure would have been "turnacct switch" which is what chkpacct does as needed.

Couldn't find anything online or in any book? You must have been looking at HP's documentation. With every release of HP-UX, HP discards some documentation. The last sighting of HP documentation on System Accounting was chapter 12 of System Administration Tasks, HP-UX Release 9.0. For HP-UX 10.x, HP combined that book with How HP-UX Works, Concepts for the System Administrator, dropping random pieces of text until the book was small enough to suit them. For, HP-UX 11.0, they dropped the entire remaining book.

Try Sun's documentation. I just compared it to the old HP documentation and it's very close.

Thank you very much... the link did not work though.. where should I look for the Solaris docs?