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To: Nicholas Merrill <nick@calyx.net>
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On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Nicholas Merrill wrote:

> At 02:35 AM 8/20/97 +0800, you wrote:
> >We are currently operating an ISP under Windows NT Server 4, and are
> >seriously thinking about changing and running it under FreeBSD 2.2.2.
> >
> >There is only one thing holding us back, it is very important that we keep
> >track of our users, such as login times and length of login plus how much
> >they are downloading per call.
> >
> >Windows NT displays all this information easily, I have not yet found a
> >way to receive the same level of info from FreeBSD .. Can anyone please
> >suggest some ideas?  As we _REALLY_ want to change over ASAP.
> >
> >Thank you,
> >Jason McKay.
> 
> Actually I heard it wasn't possible to track any information like that
> with FreeBSD.  That may be the one edge that NT has in this competition. <g>
> 
> Nick
> 
> 
> 

You can get login time and length of login from "last" command. If you want 
cummulative time per users, try "ac". I'm not sure how to get the number 
of bytes transfered per users.

Shin