Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!oliveb!felix!zemon From: rwa@auvax.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Need per-user accounting system Message-ID: <31102@felix.UUCP> Date: 21 Apr 88 00:34:19 GMT Sender: zemon@felix.UUCP Reply-To: rwa@auvax.UUCP Lines: 30 Approved: zemon@felix.UUCP Reply-Path: > The word has come down from on high that henceforth we will charge > for computer use. Thus I am in need of a system to do per-user > invoicing from the data collected in /usr/adm/*acct. Assuming this makes it back ;-) --> we use a package called `ja' from AIM Technology. It seems to work ok; it's a little slow at times but then I have over 700 active user accounts on this box... Aim advertises in Unix {World,Review,*} and so on. Their tech support has been good, see what kind of a discount you can get - we got 50%. Features: Rates-by-time and charge groups (not nescessarily matching UIDs, but no reason not to do that) with semi-privilged group leaders well supported. Both detailed and summary reports available via a psuedo natural-language interface (which doesn't always parse the way you think it ought to :-)... Works from /usr/adm/acct, utmp, and has a disk-usage info collector that you run from the crontab (I run mine hourly). Drawbacks: ja doesn't understand NFS or the idea of charging daemon time to users. I asked them about this, and they thought those were good ideas, but made no promises. The nice thing was that it's all supplied as source - mine ported to a Sun/3 fairly trivially. Of course, I didn't *use* that copy! Sincerely, Ross Alexander, Sr. Systems Programmer @ Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta T0G 2R0 !alberta!auvax!rwa