Re: ppp check.

[Mike Thompson <mike@pacificcoast.net>]

Kent perhaps you want something like this
#
#

###/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/up-time-sh####################

#!/bin/sh
rdate -s timelord.uregina.ca   #use your own timeserver
echo -e "#\nOnline: `date`" >> /var/log//online
echo -e "`date +%s%t`\c" >> /var/log//online
##################################################

###/etc/ppp/ip-down/down-time-sh##################
#!/bin/sh
echo -e "`date +%s%n`" >> /var/log/online
##################################################

###/home/kent/online-time.pl######################

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$datestring = "Online:";
$logfile = "/var/log/online";
$logline = "";

open (LOG, $logfile) or die "Couldn't open $logfile: $!";

while( <LOG> ){
	next if m/^#/;
	chomp;
	if ( m/^$datestring/){
		@logline = split " ";
		$month = $logline[2];
		($logline = <LOG>);
		chomp $logline;
		@logline = split "\t", $logline;
		(@logline == 2) or die "time string error ";
		$month{$month} +=int(($logline[1] - $logline[0] + 60) / 60);
	}else{
		print "\nerror in logfile";
	}
}
foreach $month (keys %month){
	$minutes = $month{$month};
	print "Online time for $month: ", int($minutes / 60)," hours";
	$minutes %= 60;
	print " ", ($minutes), " minutes\n";
}
#################################################

###add to your bash_profile######################

perl ./online-time.pl
##################################################



On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 05:18:05AM +0200, Kjetil Thuen wrote:
> Kent Nyberg <vovin@footek.org> writes:
> 
> > Is there a program to check how long one have been on ppp ?
> > I used a program in windows to check how long i have been on internet.. so
> > that i do not get to expensive bills :)
> > So i would like one for linux :)
> 
> You might want to check out tcharge. It even calculates your phonebill
> for you. I don't think there are any debs available though..
> 
> URL:http://hix.physik.uni-bremen.de/pub/Linux/tcharge/
> 
> Kjetil
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