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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: Steve Reid <root@edmweb.com>
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Subject: Re: Logging pppd connect & disconnect
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> Is there any way to log when users connect and disconnect with pppd?

Sure, it's a piece of cake.  How do your users startup PPP?  On my box
they run a little shell script which is customized for each system, so
it would be trivial to have it append start/stop entries to a file.

Here's my password entry
Ptrout:*:812:800:PPP Login for trout:/etc/ppp:/etc/ppp/Login-trout

And /etc/ppp/Login-trout
#!/bin/sh
#
# Specific login file for machines who want their stuff hard-coded
#

PATH=:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin
export PATH

ACCOUNT_FILE=/etc/ppp/trout.log
mesg n
stty -tostop
echo "Start" `date` >> $ACCOUNT_FILE
pppd `hostname`:trout debug
echo "Stop" `date` >> $ACCOUNT_FILE

Might work.


Nate