You may want to have a look at an Australian Product called ACUA
http://acua.gist.net.au/
Liviu Daia wrote:
> I'm trying to setup user accounting for a dialin service that I
> inherited at work. My configuration:
>
> - a Cyclades multiport connected to 8 modems;
> - a few users with their shells set to /usr/sbin/pppd;
> - kernel version 2.2.4;
> - pppd version 2.3.6.
>
> (more details available upon request).
>
> Everything seems to be working fine, users are able to connect and
> so on, but now I'd like to have some sort of accounting of the time
> people spend online. My first attempt was to write a small program
> that sends start and stop records to an SQL server, and call it from
> /etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down. However, the ip-up and ip-down
> scripts don't seem to be called at all. I'm aware that these scripts
> are invoked with all fd's closed (which, BTW, has proven to be a huge
> PITA in various other situations), but this has nothing to do with my
> problem: if I put f.i.
>
> #! /bin/sh
> /usr/bin/touch /tmp/ppp
>
> in ip-up, the file is not created.
>
> So my questions are:
>
> (1) What's going on here?
> (2) Is there a better approach?
>
> Regards,
>
> Liviu Daia
>
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