This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of the GNU accounting utilities. The GNU accounting utilities are: ac, accton, last, lastcomm and sa. They were written by Noel Cragg . Please note that the program last(1) can be built from these acct sources, is not included in the Debian acct package as the Debian sysvinit package already supplies a last binary. This package was put together by Dirk Eddelbuettel from sources obtained from: ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/acct-6.3.tar.gz The GNU Accounting Utilities are Copyright (C) 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. On a Debian GNU/Linux system, a full copy of the GNU General Public License can be found in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL .