Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!NUSVM.BITNET!GBOPOLY1 From: GBOPOLY1@NUSVM.BITNET (fclim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: RE: Accounting ? Message-ID: <8908140934.AA18876@umix.cc.umich.edu> Date: 14 Aug 89 09:33:46 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 37 X-Unparsable-Date: Mon, 14 Aug 89 17:31:41 SST In article <8432@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> michal%kuhub.cc.ukans.edu %wupost%wugate.uucp@uunet.uu.net (Merlin The Magician) writes: > My boss has recently asked me to come up with reports about usage > of 16 DN4000 Apollo workstations that we support for the School of > Engineering. Obviously some accounting software will be nice to have > in order to get some data. The only thing that there is on the system > that I have found is the printer/plotter accounting. > > I can handle in some crude way disk usage accounting, just go over > each directory of every user and collect the grandtotals. > More difficult will be process accounting and for instance, > restricting people to use only X Kbytes of disk space. > > -- Merlin I don't know whether Apollo Domain/OS (ie SR10+) has disk quota or disk usage accounting, but you can switch on process accounting via "/etc/accton". This command is documented in the "Managing your BSD software" manual for sys-admins. The man page is in Section 8 and listed under (surprising) /etc/sa. You *don't* need to install the BSD environment to have the accounting facility. fclim --- gbopoly1 % nusvm.bitnet @ cunyvm.cuny.edu computer centre singapore polytechnic dover road singapore 0513. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Add your pet peeve If we think really hard, maybe we can stop this ____! No ____! No ____! No ____! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=