> I haven't seen anything in the documentation regarding accounting. What I > mean, is that you could set a montly limit on downloads for particular > users. Something to the effect of user: bob has three kilobytes it > transfers left. If there isn't a function other than the MB= portion in the > access.conf entries, would it be possible to do some sort of accounting > through maybe radius? Any suggestions would be helpful.
Hi, Volume limits can only be set for daily usage only. If you wish to set limits for other periods, you will need to do some processing of logs. The simplest solution I can think of would be to set up a cron/at job using 'duse' to process the daily logs generated when 'loguse true' is set in dnews.conf (Logs are named in the format (dnews)/u_yyyymmdd.log), and if the limit is exceeded, modify users.dat or access.conf in order to deny access to users who are over the limit. Don't forget to do a 'tellnews reload' once this file is changed. This technique has been recommended to others in the past, so someone in the group may be willing to share their scripts with you. Sorry I can't offer a simple solution to this problem. - Roydon L.
