From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 25 11:11: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de (merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59802152DD for ; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 11:10:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de) Received: from caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de by merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de with ESMTP; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 20:10:54 +0100 Received: from sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de ([134.176.183.133]) by caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #6) id 121wWy-0003HI-00; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 20:07:08 +0100 Received: from localhost (hg9456@localhost) by sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA05100; Sat, 25 Dec 1999 20:11:22 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: sun33.mni.fh-giessen.de: hg9456 owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 25 Dec 1999 20:11:21 +0100 (MET) From: Ariel Burbaickij X-Sender: hg9456@sun33 To: Kent Stewart Cc: Ariel Burbaickij , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: does something like time of time spent on-line exist? In-Reply-To: <3865092E.46C6EAEF@3-cities.com> Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > > > > I use FreeBSD on my home computer the method of connection to provider > > is dial-up user PPP.I would like to know does something like timer of > > already spent on-line time exist?We have to pay on time-basis here in > > Germany even for local connections.So time spent is relevant for me. > > I use pppctl to look at the timers. There is an example in "man > pppctl" for the status. It shows you the connect time. You could do > 'pppctl to "show phy" | grep "Connect time"'. I use the local domain > socket and my show phy alias for root is > > status (pppctl /var/run/internet show phy) > > I created an alias called "conn" by combining status and the grep. It > shows the connect time. > > I start user-ppp as root and you have to be logged in as the user that > started user-ppp to run pppctl. I have not understood this sentence you said you starts user ppp as root and afterwards you say :you have to be logged as user that started user-ppp so the obvious question is:must you be logged in as root or have you menat something other. kind regards, Ariel > Regards, > > Kent > > > > > kind regards, > > Ariel > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > > SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ > > Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message