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  • 19-04-2004 10:04am
    #1
    Ronan|Raven
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,148 ✭✭✭


    Hola,

    Im plannng on putting a spare machine I have to some use. Im planning on turning it into a system capable to dial on demand, Proxy, Fileserver, mail capabilities etc.

    What im wondering is if anyone has come across any soultions capable of logging time online, data transferred etc and store it all in logs? Im open as to what flavour of linus to use. Was thinking of putting slackware onto the system. Is their any distros out there that will take care of all of this in one install?


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  • #2
    flamegrill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭flamegrill


    Hi Ronan,

    If pppd will log to syslog each time you connect and cisconnect, it also reports bytes downloaded and sent and also the time in minutes.

    I've written an application in c to calculate a lot of what your after. I think its in the shell script sticky above, if not I have the tar.gz somewhere :)

    Any distro that has a package management system will work for you. So redat/fedora/mandrake/debian/slackware/freebsd (not linux) etc will all do.

    Paul


  • #3
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,830 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Originally posted by flamegrill
    I've written an application in c to calculate a lot of what your after. I think its in the shell script sticky above, if not I have the tar.gz somewhere :)
    I think your app borks if logrotate is installed: it can't deal with compressed rotated logs. I could be wrong.

    I use LineControl to manage dialing for me. I never bothered configuring DoD - I'm happy to install the client apps on the desktop PCs to manage the dialing for me. LineControl logs online time quite accurately - it tends to report time very close to what UTV tell me in my monthly bills. It also logs data transfer up and down. It can also log the fact that the line was dialed manually, and monitor that time as well. This is handy since I sometimes use pon/poff to manage the line.


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