This one time, at band camp, Paolo Lucente wrote: >Hello Jamie, >the idea is rather interesting. I've thought implementing it via a signal >handler. This way we also avoid timing troubles (signals could be sent >via crontab scripts, for example). In future, such signal handler might >be used to send (either to the console or syslog) further status, statistics, >summaries (any idea at this propo ?). > >I've reserved for such handler the SIGUSR1; in the most simple case (a >single pmacctd instance running on the box) the following command will >suffice: > >killall -USR1 pmacctd
This sounds like a great idea; a line per statistic in syslog would be sufficient.
