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Date:      Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:25:46 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Eric Brueggmann <brueggma@ceco.ceco.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: accounting - FBSD 4.0-STABLE
Message-ID:  <20000707122545.B8474@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000707113629.A444@chaos.ceco.com>; from "Eric Brueggmann" on Fri Jul  7 11:36:29 GMT 2000
References:  <20000707113629.A444@chaos.ceco.com>

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In the last episode (Jul 07), Eric Brueggmann said:
> 
> > What doesn't work?  Is /var/account/acct not being touched?  Does
> > lastcomm not show the commands?  That's all process accounting does.
> >
> > If you want to limit how long people can stay logged in, try
> > ports/sysutils/idled.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 	I apologize, I'm a little confused on what accounting is.  As far
> as I can tell, it just accounts for all the CPU time on a per process
> basis. I thought accounting was responsible for "sessionlimit" (ie: #
> of logins per user) too.  Thank you for clarifying that for me.  I'm
> still stuck on my original problem though: anyone in the class
> "shell" is able to login more than once, is there something that I'm
> missing below?

The only thing missing is the section in the manpage mentioning that
most of the login.conf variables are unimplemented :) 

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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