accounting(1)
NAME
accounting - calculates statistics about your internet
connections
DESCRIPTION
accounting is a simple program to calculate statistics
about your internet connections that are started and
stopped by either ifup and ifdown or by a frontend to
smpppd like cinternet , qinternet or kinternet.
OPTIONS
These options are recognized by accounting. If a long
option shows an argument as mandatory, then it is manda
tory for the equivalent short option also.
- -l, --last=NUM
- Only consider the last NUM connections.
- -a, --after=DATE
- Only consider connections started after DATE. DATE
is a date with optional time in ISO 8601 format,
e.g. `2002-12-24 20:15:00'. - Note that a date without time is treated as if the
time is 00:00:00. Hence connections started on the
specified date are consider. - -b, --before=DATE
- Only consider connections started before DATE.
- --this-year
- Only consider connections started this year.
- --last-year
- Only consider connections started last year.
- --this-month
- Only consider connections started this month.
- --last-month
- Only consider connections started last month.
- --today
- Only consider connections started today.
- --yesterday
- Only consider connections started yesterday.
- -c, --connections
- Only list the connections but do not show provider
statistics. - -p, --providers
- Do not list the connections only show the provider
statistics. - --connection-format=FORMAT
- The names of the columns to print in the connection
list. The names must be separated by a comma. Known
column names are time, type, provider, status,
duration, rx, tx, rxtx, averx, avetx and averxtx.
Each name may be appended by a colon and a number
indicating the width for the column, e.g.
provider:25. The value will not be truncated if the
width is too small. - --provider-format=FORMAT
- The names of the columns to print in the provider
list equivalent to the --connection-format option.
Known column names are provider, number, duration,
rx, tx, rxtx, aveduration, averx, avetx and
averxtx. - --local
- Display all dates in local time. Also interpret
dates on the command line in local time. This is
the default. - --utc Display all dates in UTC. Also interpret dates on
- the command line in UTC.
- --script[=STYLE]
- Format output for script. Known styles are c and
sh. - -f, --file=NAME
- Use a different file with accounting information.
- --report-errors
- Report erros in the accounting file.
- --version
- Show program version and exit.
- --help Show help information and exit.
NOTES
All informations are only obtained through the accounting
log. Hence the informations, esp. the data volume, of cur
rently active connections is not accurate. If you want the
know the status of a connection use ifstatus or a frontend
to smpppd like cinternet , qinternet or kinternet instead.
BUGS
Not yet implemented for ISDN.
FILES
- /var/log/smpppd/accounting.log
- File containing accounting information.
SEE ALSO
kinternet, qinternet, cinternet(1), smpppd(8).
AUTHOR
- Arvin Schnell <arvin@suse.de>