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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 1996 11:31:00 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        ianw@ee.usyd.edu.au (Ian Wynne)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <199602200101.LAA03272@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <m0toc8I-000JnaC@cassius.ee.usyd.EDU.AU> from "Ian Wynne" at Feb 20, 96 07:24:26 am

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Ian Wynne stands accused of saying:
>  
> I'm setting up an Internet Provider Service using FreeBSD 2.1.
>  
> I don't know how to get the user information for billing purposes,
> ie login and logout times and duration spent on the system.
>  
> I've looked through the manual entries for profile and also I've done
> "apropos user", but I haven't been able to find anything relevant.
>  
> Is there any way that FreeBSD 2.1 can provide this sort of information?
> Or is it necessary for me to write a daemon to monitor login and logout
> times?

'man ac'

> Also, is it possible to implement some sort of inactivety time out, which
> logs people out if they haven't performed any action for a given number
> of minutes?

Go hunt 'idled'.  Someone should make a port of it.

> Ian Wynne       ianw@ee.usyd.edu.au

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