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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: User Accounting
Date: 24 Jul 1996 20:17:59 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <4t52qo$5pt@stratus.skypoint.net>,
Patrick Sonnek <psonnek@skypoint.com> wrote:
>I am looking for a way to collect statistics on system usage.  So far 
>nothing in the FreeBSD book, or any of the man pages has jumped out and 
>grabbed me.  The only thing I did notice, is that in /etc/sysconfig it 
>says that leave accounting off, as it probably dosn't work yet.

See the Handbook entry on setting up quotas - I believe this works
now under 2.1.5.

>Does anyone have a script, or utility that can give me info on number of 
>callers per day.  total connection time (2 reports, by user, and by tty) 
>and able to get breakdowns by day/month

I don't know of any off hand, but there must be lots of them
around.  You could probably knock a simple one up using Perl 
on the output from 'last' without too much difficulty.

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/