How to Fix tacct Errors

1. Become superuser.

2. Change to the /var/adm/acct/sum directory.

3. Convert the contents of tacct.MMDD from binary to ASCII format.

   # acctmerg -v tacct.MMDD xtacct

   MMDD	Month and day specified by two-digit numbers.

4. Edit the xtacct file, removing bad records and writing duplicate records to another file.

5. Convert the xtacct file from ASCII format to binary.

   # acctmerg -i xtacct tacct.MMDD

   MMDD	Month and day specified by two-digit numbers.

6. Merge the files tacct.prv and tacct.MMDD into the file tacct.

   # acctmerg tacctprv tacct.MMDD tacct