On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:30 AM Grant Taylor via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> (Credit the Quotas thread for prompting this.) > > Did anyone ever use process accounting? Did they actually bill > departments (funny money)? > > I was always intrigued by process accounting, but never had a use for it > myself. > > I guess I can thank process accounting for causing the discrepancy that > Cliff Stole tracked down that became The Cuckoo's Egg. :-) > I had it enabled on my FreeBSD boxes and got monthly usage stats. I did it to make sure that there were no weird users with time, and that the typical usage was "what I expected". Never detected anything amiss with this, and at some point I retired all those old boxes and with them the monthly reporting email. Warner
