On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:54:41PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On 10 Jan 2002 at 21:08, USM Bish wrote: > > Only recently, I came to know that the latest version of ppp- > > status (ver 0.4.2) from http://pppstatus.sourceforge.net has > > cost accounting. I have not tried it ... > > Kppp has that too. but rates are predefined. I never used it > though. If you are able to change the predefined rates or add > your own, it should do. It has something like 30 countries > predefined. >
Yeah, that's true. In ver 1 of KDE, this rule set amendments were not easy. Don't know what it is like in kppp ver 2 > > Same thing should be possible by parsing system logs too. After > all, all dialers invokes ppp at some point of time which gets > logged in syslog. ppp-up script is another place where you can > put that. > Yeah, that is precisely what connect does, takes the inputs from /var/log/messages, and output from pppstats (a part of ppp) and keeps it in a monthly database. Only raw data is saved, but the computation of the statistics is done at run-time. Being based on basic installed programs/ utilities, it needs no external software installed, and has the obvious advantages of extensibility, being a script. Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : ext3 file system LOST #034 To implement ext3 filesystem have a good look here (Cool) : http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>####################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
