Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU!matth From: matth@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Matthew Hannigan) Subject: Re: Time tracking Message-ID: <matth.753177384@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU Nntp-Posting-Host: extro.ucc.su.oz.au Organization: Information Services, Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia References: <2aukp0$241@galaxy.ucr.edu> <2bsgnk$gm3@u.cc.utah.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1993 07:56:24 GMT Lines: 30 In article <2aukp0$241@galaxy.ucr.edu> duchow@galaxy.ucr.edu (John Duchowski) writes: >Hi, I would like to find out how can one set up time tracking on unix, >similar to that which one obtains when one does: > > $ logout/full > >on VMS. I would like to do this in order to keep track of the time >I spend signed on, because my Unix connection happes to be over a long >distance line and I would like to minimize the associated costs. I put the command 'time' in my .logout file, as well as append the results to a .log file which I periodically review. My complete .logout file: date >> ~/.log time >> ~/.log clear time sleep 1 This only works for csh, of course. For the Bourne shell and derivative you'll have to trap the hangup signal. trap '$HOME/.logout' 1 or similar. -- -Matt