That sound's like the simplest thing to do.
It wouldn't be hard to do anyway since we already have a program that
converts the raw logs in to the format that we would like.
Once again, thanx.
Pete.
Hugh Irvine wrote:
>
> Hi Pete -
>
> On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, Pete Black wrote:
> > >%_This is good, although we require that at the end of the month all
> > existing records that don't have a stop record at the turn of the month
> > get truncated at 00:00h the next day.
> >
> > Would it be possible to have some sort of hook that intercepted the
> > incoming acct packet, then check if it's start record is in the previous
> > month, create the truncated record, create a new Start record at the
> > beginning of the month and then put down the modified Stop record?
> >
>
> I'm not sure that you would want to do it that way.
>
> You might do something like this:
>
> <Handler ...>
> AcctLogFileName %L/accounting.%m.%Y
> AcctLogFileFormat .....
> ......
> </Handler>
>
> This will write to a file called "accounting.10.1999" for the month of October,
> then at midnight on the 31st it will roll to "accounting.11.1999". Your
> post-processing can then tidy up the loose ends at the beginning and end of the
> month.
>
> hth
>
> Hugh
>
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