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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de!mha From: Michael Hasenstein <mha@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and network accounting Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 09:02:53 +0200 Organization: University of Technology Chemnitz, FRG Lines: 30 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.92.960426085852.81B-100000@benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> References: <4lgfmj$n64@narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> <4ljd8j$ng0@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.LNX.3.92.960424084114.105B-100000@benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> <830348589.3000@arg1.demon.co.uk> <Pine.LNX.3.92.960425122633.110A-100000@benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> <4lon5a$2qd@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: mha@benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <4lon5a$2qd@uriah.heep.sax.de> On 25 Apr 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > Michael Hasenstein <mha@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> writes: > > >So my (now more specific) question is: What do I have to change in the > >sources in order to not only be able to compile nacctd (we did that) but > >to get it working! > > I still don't see why tcpdump is useless for you (and i wrote you in > private mail that i'm actually using it for exactly this purpose), but > anyway, since Linux seems to have invented something that is just > Linux only (your first message: ``I tried to compile the sources, but > there's a special Linux socket type called PACKET which doesn't exist > in FreeBSD.''), i doubt you will have the chance to get it working on > *BSD (nor on SunOS nor on ...). nacctd has NOT been written especially for linux. It needed a lot of minor changes in order to compile. V.Holfeld supposed that nacctd was for Linux, but that's wrong. When will I finally get an answer to my question? This thread is getting more and more senseless! -- ******************************************************************* email: Michael.Hasenstein@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de (MIME welcome) homepage: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~mha my private pc: benjy.csn.tu-chemnitz.de (Linux!!) or 134.109.104.2 *******************************************************************