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From: magill@operations.upenn.edu (PENNnet Oper/Planning)
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Subject: Re: Annex terminal servers - usage stats
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Date: 24 Sep 89 13:00:03 GMT
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In article <1989Sep19.151922.22555@cs.rochester.edu> becker@cs.rochester.edu (Tim Becker) writes:

>   We wrote an awk script to keep track of connect time on some of our annex
>   ports (the modem ports).  We used the Event Logging feature of the annex
>   s/w.  This sends Unix syslog msgs to a Unix machine of your choice.  It can
>   log every annex port open and close.
>
>   One problem with it is that it uses the 4.2bsd syslog format.  Since
>   upgrading our Suns to SunOS 4.0.x, the annex event logging won't work
>   anymore (SunOS 4.0.x uses the 4.3bsd syslog format).  I'm hoping for a fix
>   from the Encore-annex folks.
>
That's interesting - I had no problems with annex logging in our switch
to SunOS/4. I Happen to have been using various levels of beta 4.1.(1-9)
since last spring for various bug fixes. The latest copy is 4.1.9 which is
logging merily away. I was told that the real 4.1 was due out
"immediately", just before Labor Day.

I don't even remember having to do anything fancy once I got it running,
but do recall that there was something "strange" about getting it
running. I remember that it didn't "start right up", but the problem was
a configuration problem - on the Sun if I remember correctly. Oh yeah,
now I remember - this is one of those - "If the file doesn't exist,
don't do anything" "unix-gotchas".

I have a couple of scripts to cycle and recreate the annex logfiles
so that the whole process can run out of cron if anybody's interested.
I never did get around to processing the data collected. So I'll
trade for the AWK scripts.
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