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accounting

NAME

accounting - calculates statistics about your internet connections

DESCRIPTION

accounting is a simple program to calculate statistics about your internet dial-up connections that are started and stopped by either ifup and ifdown or by a frontend to smpppd like cinternet , qinternet or kinternet.

OPTIONS

These options are recognized by accounting. If a long option shows an argument as mandatory, then it is mandatory for the equivalent short option also.

-l, --last=NUM

Only consider the last NUM connections.

-a, --after=DATE

Only consider connections started after DATE. DATE is a date with optional time in ISO 8601 format, e.g. `2002-12-24 20:15:00'.

Note that a date without time is treated as if the time is 00:00:00. Hence connections started on the specified date are considered.

-b, --before=DATE

Only consider connections started before DATE.

-u, --user=USER

Only consider connections started by user USER.

--this-year

Only consider connections started this year.

--last-year

Only consider connections started last year.

--this-month

Only consider connections started this month.

--last-month

Only consider connections started last month.

--this-week

Only consider connections started this week.

--last-week

Only consider connections started last week.

--today

Only consider connections started today.

--yesterday

Only consider connections started yesterday.

--per-year

Show summaries on a per year basis.

--per-month

Show summaries on a per month basis.

--per-week

Show summaries on a per week basis.

--per-day

Show summaries on a per day basis.

-c, --connections

Only list the connections but do not show provider statistics.

-p, --providers

Do not list the connections only show the provider statistics.

--connection-format=FORMAT

The names of the columns to print in the connection list. The names must be separated by a comma. Known column names are time, type, provider, user, status, duration, rx, tx, rxtx, averx, avetx and averxtx. Each name may be appended by a colon and a number indicating the width for the column, e.g. provider:25. The value will not be truncated if the width is too small.

--provider-format=FORMAT

The names of the columns to print in the provider list equivalent to the --connection-format option. Known column names are provider, number, duration, rx, tx, rxtx, aveduration, averx, avetx and averxtx.

--local

Display all dates in local time. Also interpret dates on the command line in local time. This is the default.

--utc

Display all dates in UTC. Also interpret dates on the command line in UTC.

--script[=STYLE]

Format output for script. Known styles are c and sh.

-f, --file=NAME

Use a different file with accounting information.

--report-errors

Report erros in the accounting file.

--version

Show program version and exit.

--help

Show help information and exit.

NOTES

All informations are only obtained through the accounting log. Hence the informations, esp. the data volume, of currently active connections is not accurate. If you want the know the status of a connection, use ifstatus or a frontend to smpppd like cinternet , qinternet or kinternet instead.

The user field is empty for connections started by a remote frontend of smpppd.

BUGS

Not yet implemented for ISDN (ippp).

FILES

/var/log/smpppd/accounting.log

File containing accounting information.

SEE ALSO

kinternet, qinternet, cinternet(1), smpppd(8), smpppd-ifcfg(8).

AUTHOR

Arvin Schnell <arvin@suse.de>