acct (6.6.4-9) unstable; urgency=medium The settings that used to be defined in /etc/default/acct to control enablement and log rotation for process accounting are no longer used. ACCT_ENABLE was already ignored by the systemd integration but now it is ignored in all cases and, when required, the service should be disabled directly with the service manager using update-rc.d acct disable. Process accounting files are now rotated by logrotate. Rotation is configured in /etc/logrotate.d/acct and ACCT_LOGGING is ignored. -- Andrew Bower Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:13:19 +0100 acct (6.6.4-6) unstable; urgency=medium The login accounting tool 'ac' is no longer effective on Debian systems since trixie because of the transition from recording system login records in /var/log/wtmp to the wtmpdb database. The tools in this package only understand login records in the utmp(5) format used for /var/log/wtmp and not wtmpdb databases. They can still be used for forensic purposes against files from systems that do store utmp-format logs. The process accounting capabilities of this package are still functional. It is recommended to install the 'wtmpdb' and 'libpam-wtmpdb' packages for login accounting on the running system. -- Andrew Bower Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:46:58 +0100