Re: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-13 Thread Allen
*snip* On 10/11/2011 4:23 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: Cannot be of any direct help, but ... You remember that 'astronomer chases hacker on Berkely computer systes'- novel, Cliff Stoll: The Cookoo's Egg? If not, try wikipedia. As an aside, I was told that at some universities' CS-classes,

RE: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-13 Thread Murray Taylor
: Wednesday, 12 October 2011 7:15 AM To: Polytropon Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Turning system accounting data into money On 10/11/2011 5:06 PM, Polytropon wrote: This is _not_ a spam message trying to sell something stupid to the list. I'm just searching for a solution to turn consumed computing

Re: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-12 Thread David Brodbeck
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: So, systems that do what you want (and customers who want to pay on a per use basis) must be around for quite some time. Yeah, this was the normal way of doing things for many years on large systems, back when a large

Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-11 Thread Polytropon
This is _not_ a spam message trying to sell something stupid to the list. I'm just searching for a solution to turn consumed computing resources into a number and a currency symbol. :-) Reason: A growing amount of (my) customers seems to like this concept: They speed a low fee for access to

Re: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-11 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 10/11/2011 5:06 PM, Polytropon wrote: This is _not_ a spam message trying to sell something stupid to the list. I'm just searching for a solution to turn consumed computing resources into a number and a currency symbol. :-) Reason: A growing amount of (my) customers seems to like this

Re: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-11 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:14:44 +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Yes, the builtin accounting facilities do most of the stuff you are interested in. Just add 'accounting_enable=YES' in your /etc/rc.conf, run '/etc/rc.d/accounting start' and use sa to examine the output. I believe the per-user

Re: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-11 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:06:19 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: This is _not_ a spam message trying to sell something stupid to the list. I'm just searching for a solution to turn consumed computing resources into a number and a currency symbol. :-) Reason: A growing amount of (my)

Re: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-11 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Ever heard of bold_or_underline? On Oct 11, 2011 10:06 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: This is _not_ a spam message trying to sell something stupid to the list. I'm just searching for a solution to turn consumed computing resources into a number and a currency symbol. :-) Reason: A