diff --git a/etc/daily b/etc/daily
index f36e6d40adf7..bb9d9ba1710e 100644
--- a/etc/daily
+++ b/etc/daily
@@ -29,11 +29,25 @@ echo "You did not enable the cleaning of / in /etc/daily!"
 #	   -o -name '*.CKP' -o -name '.emacs_[0-9]*' \) \
 #		-a -atime +3 -exec rm -f -- {} \;
 #
+
+# remove system	messages older than 21 days
 msgs -c
+
 if [ -f /etc/news.expire ]; then
 	/etc/news.expire
 fi
 
+if [ -f /var/account/acct ] ; then
+	echo ""
+	echo "Gathering accounting statistics:"
+	cd /var/account
+	if [ -f acct.2 ] ; then mv -f acct.2 acct.3 ; fi
+	if [ -f acct.1 ] ; then mv -f acct.1 acct.2 ; fi
+	if [ -f acct.0 ] ; then mv -f acct.0 acct.1 ; fi
+	cp -pf acct acct.0
+	sa -s > /dev/null
+fi
+
 echo ""
 echo "Backup passwd and group files:"
 if [ ! -f $bak/master.passwd.bak ] ; then
diff --git a/etc/newsyslog.conf b/etc/newsyslog.conf
index 15c459e538a1..d0d90f461e3b 100644
--- a/etc/newsyslog.conf
+++ b/etc/newsyslog.conf
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 # configuration file for newsyslog
-# $Id: newsyslog.conf,v 1.1 1996/01/05 10:24:03 graichen Exp $
+# $Id: newsyslog.conf,v 1.2 1996/01/06 21:47:07 ache Exp $
 #
 # logfilename           owner.group     mode ngen size time [ZB]
-/var/account/acct                       664  3    *    24    ZB
 /var/cron/log				600  3    10   *     Z
 /var/log/kerberos.log			664  7    10   *     Z
 /var/log/lpd-errs			664  7    10   *     Z