RE: VNMR Accounting tool

From: Stephanie Mabry <mabry_at_umbc.edu>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:19:22 -0500

Thanks to everyone for the help with how to access old VNMR_accounting
files. It turns out that there are several different ways to go about
solving this problem. I have summarized the suggestions I received below.

Stephanie

> Our Varian instrument has VNMR 6.1B software. In the VNMR_accounting
> tool, you hit the button 'update and save' to save the console log
> information in a file under the /var/adm directory and the information
> in the vnmr_accounting window is rezeroed.
>
> My problem is how do I view this saved information if I need to look at
> old console log data. There does not seem to be anywhere within the
> accounting tool where you can select an alternate file to view. I have
> tried unsuccessfully to use a text editor but the file just looks like
> garbage. What application do I need to view these type of files?
>

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Every month go into /vnmr/adm/tmp and copy all the current files to have an
extension with the day's date.  Then copy these text files to a PC.
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Rename the files for VNMR_accounting to read them. It reads /var/adm/wtmp by
default.
The old file is named wtmp.mm.dd.yy, depending in the date when you used
update and save in the VNMR_accounting program.  Copy the current wtmp file
to wtmp.current and then copy the wtmp.date to wtmp.  You can then access
the data with VNMR_accounting.  When you are done you have to copy the
wtmp.current back to wtmp.  This must be done as root.  Be careful to backup
the current wtmp.
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If you just want to look at console log information, just use last: last -f
wtmpx The console data is kept in /var/adm is wtmp (or wtmpx depending on
your version of Solaris).
Don't move wtmp (or any file that is being accessed) as that will have
unintended side effects. Copy the wtmp (or wtmpx) file, then cp /dev/null on
top of the original file to reset the accounting records.
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Edit console_login in /var/adm/bin to select which file is read by
VNMR_accounting. /vnmr/adm/bin/console_login takes two
arguments. You can set the 'wtmp' file it uses by editing view_acctng.

Received on Tue Feb 05 2002 - 23:39:08 MST