UUCP Accounting
Michael P. Deignan
mpd at anomaly.SBS.COM
Tue Feb 19 23:30:41 AEST 1991
sdb%hotmomma at uunet.uu.net (Scott Ballantyne) writes:
>Is there a canonical way to keep track of connect time on a per-site
>basis when our system calls out with mail/news? After looking at
>the manuals, it appears the only way is to write a program to scan the
>uucp log files and compute connect time and charges based on the
>entries for each system. We would prefer not to enable process
>accounting.
Programs already exist to do exactly this. One is called "uutraf", which
digests the contents of your .Admin/xferstats file. Just adding one line
of code to your nitely UUCP cleanup task can give you all the accounting
data you need.
If you need a copy, I can mail one to you - its rather small.
MD
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