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Re: Persistent SLIP statistics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otmar Lendl)
Tue Jun 4 17:46:10 1996
To: submit-linux-dev-net@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: lendl@cosy.sbg.ac.at (Otmar Lendl)
Date: 4 Jun 1996 17:21:46 GMT
Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> wrote:
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>If you need persistent statistics, use an accounting firewall, I'd say.
Why not log the statistics on closing the device ?
That way a script parsing the syslog can do the accounting,
provided all neccessary ist dumped.
(Sorry if I'm completely off-base, but IMHO that's what (k)syslogd is for.)
otmar
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