debian man page for accounting

ACCOUNTING(1)                                                         SMPPPD                                                         ACCOUNTING(1)

NAME
       accounting - calculates statistics about your internet connections

DESCRIPTION
       accounting  is a simple program to calculate statistics about your internet dial-up connections that are started and stopped by either ifup
       and ifdown or by a frontend to smpppd like cinternet , qinternet or kinternet.

OPTIONS
       These options are recognized by accounting.  If a long option shows an argument as mandatory, then it is mandatory for the equivalent short
       option also.

       -l, --last=NUM
              Only consider the last NUM connections.

       -a, --after=DATE
              Only consider connections started after DATE.  DATE is a date with optional time in ISO 8601 format, e.g. `2002-12-24 20:15:00'.

              Note  that  a  date without time is treated as if the time is 00:00:00.  Hence connections started on the specified date are consid-
              ered.

       -b, --before=DATE
              Only consider connections started before DATE.

       -u, --user=USER
              Only consider connections started by user USER.

       --this-year
              Only consider connections started this year.

       --last-year
              Only consider connections started last year.

       --this-month
              Only consider connections started this month.

       --last-month
              Only consider connections started last month.

       --this-week
              Only consider connections started this week.

       --last-week
              Only consider connections started last week.

       --today
              Only consider connections started today.

       --yesterday
              Only consider connections started yesterday.

       --per-year
              Show summaries on a per year basis.

       --per-month
              Show summaries on a per month basis.

       --per-week
              Show summaries on a per week basis.

       --per-day
              Show summaries on a per day basis.

       -c, --connections
              Only list the connections but do not show provider statistics.

       -p, --providers
              Do not list the connections only show the provider statistics.

       --connection-format=FORMAT
              The names of the columns to print in the connection list.  The names must be separated by a comma.  Known  column  names  are  time,
              type,  provider,  user, status, duration, rx, tx, rxtx, averx, avetx and averxtx.  Each name may be appended by a colon and a number
              indicating the width for the column, e.g. provider:25.  The value will not be truncated if the width is too small.

       --provider-format=FORMAT
              The names of the columns to print in the provider list equivalent  to  the  --connection-format  option.   Known  column  names  are
              provider, number, duration, rx, tx, rxtx, aveduration, averx, avetx and averxtx.

       --local
              Display all dates in local time.  Also interpret dates on the command line in local time.  This is the default.

       --utc  Display all dates in UTC.  Also interpret dates on the command line in UTC.

       --script[=STYLE]
              Format output for script.  Known styles are c and sh.

       -f, --file=NAME
              Use a different file with accounting information.

       --report-errors
              Report erros in the accounting file.

       --version
              Show program version and exit.

       --help Show help information and exit.

NOTES
       All  informations  are only obtained through the accounting log.  Hence the informations, esp. the data volume, of currently active connec-
       tions is not accurate.  If you want the know the status of a connection, use ifstatus or a frontend to smpppd like cinternet , qinternet or
       kinternet instead.

       The user field is empty for connections started by a remote frontend of smpppd.

BUGS
       Not yet implemented for ISDN (ippp).

FILES
       /var/log/smpppd/accounting.log
              File containing accounting information.

SEE ALSO
       kinternet, qinternet, cinternet(1), smpppd(8), smpppd-ifcfg(8).

AUTHOR
       Arvin Schnell <arvin@suse.de>

SuSE                                                               December 2002                                                     ACCOUNTING(1)