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From: mpd@anomaly.SBS.COM (Michael P. Deignan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: UUCP Accounting
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.123041.4510@anomaly.SBS.COM>
Date: 19 Feb 91 12:30:41 GMT
References: <1991Feb17.222839.4406@hotmomma.UUCP>
Organization: Small Business Systems, Inc., Esmond, RI  02917
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sdb%hotmomma@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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