From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 12 01:08:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB3C106566B for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:08:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from juvix88@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9FC88FC1A for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:08:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwe3 with SMTP id 3so229905wwe.31 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:08:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=nld78GX9mr8HlV/uOjVrr3MQgyQwjwlwS5S7PsLizfY=; b=MYN6i+qgfbIGR+EFqPAk3u933BuY1Fb/23LsJpWfsUIt4SF/vfWgAktd4RRJukXZqN 400zrIjNF1p1W2aNRpbJ6l/GHnT+SsICZ2x4+FczlT1w738SirrKv3Oq4ue6yUMsAFVx 2Gu8JSi4P7dxcHdNEV0dNN3GrdN+1hJN/620k= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.12.8 with SMTP id v8mr5510730wbv.56.1318381698539; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.84.130 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.84.130 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:08:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20111011160619.840c69f8.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20111011160619.840c69f8.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:08:18 -0400 Message-ID: From: Jonathan Vomacka To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Turning system accounting data into money X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:08:21 -0000 Ever heard of bold_or_underline? On Oct 11, 2011 10:06 AM, "Polytropon" wrote: > > This is _not_ a spam message trying to sell something > stupid to the list. I'm just searching for a solution > to turn consumed computing resources into a number and > a currency symbol. :-) > > Reason: A growing amount of (my) customers seems to > like this concept: They speed a low fee for access to > systems and applications, and they want to pay according > to what they did with that system. The access fee covers > access and some basic services (backup & quota), and for > anything "more advanced" they want to be charged per > "units" used, or per "consumed resources". This can be dialog > time (SSH), disk I/O, disk occupied, pages printed (can happen) > or pages required to print on exceptional specific forms > (can happen once or twice a year and is charged with an > additional fee for fold, staple & mutilate). > > Sounds stupid? I have _real_ customers intendedly > requesting that payment model (instead of "just pay > amount n Euro a month and do whatever you like"). > > Accidentally, I remembered history. > > So I thought: This funcitonality has been present on > UNIX systems for many decades. But _how_ to use it? I > know there's the command set for accounting, for example > the "ac" command. But what does its output "total 7264.15" > mean? There also are "acct" (process accounting), "sa" > (for system accounting) and "pac" (for printer accounting, > just dooesn't seem to work with CUPS). > > I'd also like to use the /etc/csh.logout resp. ~/.logout > mechanism. When a user logs in, he will be presented the > program he uses (or a menu, in case he uses different ones). > This can also be a regular "remote desktop" session. When > he logs out, a message should be displayed that informs > him how much will be charged for the session. At the end > of the month, he should get an invoice with the proper > accumulated amount. > > For example, if a user wishes to issue a "make a backup > _now_, because I intendedly want _this_ current state > backed up _now_", this will be seen as additional I/O > load and disk occupation (because it's handled aside of > the regular backup runs that should be part of the > "basic package" charged with the "conneciton fee"). > Or as I said, he issues printing for stuff he cannot > print at home, so he will be charged for 500 pages. > And in case he transfers 10 GB data in, and 10 GB data > out, he will be charged for that traffic, as well as > for the I/O. > > The sessions in questions will be SSH sessions (text mode) > as well as SSH/X sessions (remote desktops). > > Maybe someone already uses something similar he wants > to share? Suggestions and inspirations are welcome. > > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"