Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:50:04 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Uptime logging with (maybe) ppp's log functionality Message-ID: <20081215184718.P55852@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20081215150931.dbc8ea64.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20081215150931.dbc8ea64.freebsd@edvax.de>
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> I'm going to setup a system with a dial-up modem for sporadic
> Internet access; a provider that charges per second online time
> is used. Is there a way ppp (which is used for dialing) can log
> the online time (or at least the connection's start and stop time)
> so the costs can be calculated?
option a:
simply make a script (say ppp-bill.sh) that will browse through logs and
search for lines indicating connection and disconnect
option b:
you may put anything to /etc/ppp/ppp.link{up,down} scripts, for example
linkup could record current time, then linkdown substract it from what
linkup recorded, multiply by price and you have logged how much each
connection cost you
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