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.
rx, tx and rxtx.
--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>
SuSE December 2002 ACCOUNTING(1)
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