Re: (PM) 3.8b15 BUG or Feature

Thomas C Kinnen (tkinnen@usacomputers.net)
Fri, 1 May 1998 04:07:17 -0400

>it is logged in accounting.. but for people running some sort of script to
>check for multiple logins.. sayy... once a minute... it tends to a least
>double the size of the log.
>
>can it be turned off?

yes, it almost does for a 48 port box. Average start/stop combo here for an
admin login is 737 bytes if login is from a dial in line (telnet are
smaller). So lets say one a min for one hr is 44220 bytes or 43K. That's
only 1MB a day per box. Average user login time here is 48 min per session
on 1440 logins a day at 979 bytes each pair. At 48 ports it's 1.3MB a day.
That's 71MB per month for both combined. No big deal. If you have 10
boxes, 710MB a month. Drives are cheap, I can not get a SCSI under 4GB new
from reliable source. After that size I would suggest one of the radius that
do ODBC accounting RadiusNT/Emerald/Radius ABM) and if space is a problem
just "DELETE FROM DETAIL where user_name = '!root'".

Tom

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