From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Fri, 22 Jul 2022 15:49:48 -0700, gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com   
   wrote:   
   > Roughly twenty years ago I used Slackware Current which would have   
   > become 7.2 if it was released to build a customer a server.   
      
   You are probably on your own here, not many people still run so old   
   versions of Slackware and even less run a snapshot of the unstable   
   current from that time.   
      
   > Problem is that he (or I) need to know what's running and how to bill   
   > each user appropriately. Now I have accounting running on a   
   > Slackware-11.0 system and it tells me all of that. Do any of you have   
   > any ideas on how to backport the functions produced by the accounting   
   > utilities from say 9.0 to that release?   
      
   As you say, it seems as if the acct package was added in Slackware 9.0. A   
   first try would be to download the source code of that package with its   
   build script and see if it compiles also on your old installation. The   
   sources can be found on mirrors like:   
      
   https://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/slackware.com/slackware-9.0/source/ap/acct/   
      
   If you are lucky, everything might work out of the box. If you are rather   
   lucky, some minor changes to the source might be needed to compile on   
   your older version. If you are unlucky, acct depends upon some feature in   
   glibc or the kernel that is missing in your installation. I would not   
   recomend trying to upgrade glibc or the kernel on your old system,   
   instead I would try to port your applications and configuration to a   
   stable and still supported version of Slackware like Slackware 15.0.   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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