Hello,

I have a question for all of the hosts who are running Cobalts. Is there any interest in a statistics program and a restricted shell for the Cobalt?

The statistics program would contain the amount of HTTP and FTP transfer each domain transfers each month. Every domain has a limit setup, and when they reach the limit, the owner of the machine would get an e-mail notifying them that this customer should be billed for X amount of overusage. As soon as they go over, it would let the owner know how much they have used so far, and how much they are projected to use the entire month. The stats could be viewed on the command prompt or by a password protected web site.

The restricted shell would allow users to login and execute all of the basic commands ... chmod, ls, rm, pico, lynx, ftp, tar, mkdir, etc. But, it would keep them restricted into their home directories and would not allow them to look at other files or folders on the system.

Is there any interest in these two programs? If so, please e-mail me at vince@jtan.com or ICQ me at UIN 26358995. Thanks for your time. :) If you are interested but don't feel like e-mailing/ICQing me, you can vote in the poll. ;)

Originally posted by Vincent Paglione
The statistics program would contain the amount of HTTP and FTP transfer each domain transfers each

If you're looking for this kind of traffic monitoring software, we have already made it. It's called Traffic Light and it has a webpage here:

http://www.raqsupport.net/trafficlight.html

The restricted shell would allow users to login and execute all of the basic commands ... chmod

You can use a program like "jail" to create a chrooted jail, which gives you the best security in creating a limited login for your users.

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Jens Kristian Søgaard, Mermaid Consulting I/S,
jens@mermaidconsulting.dk,
http://www.mermaidconsulting.com/
http://www.raqsupport.net/

Errr... I could be wrong but I think he was looking to write and sell the script himself.

Originally posted by Chicken
Errr... I could be wrong but I think he was looking to write and sell the script himself.

Oh, but why reinvent the wheel so to speak? :-)

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Jens Kristian Søgaard, Mermaid Consulting I/S,
jens@mermaidconsulting.dk,
http://www.mermaidconsulting.com/

Chicken is correct. I was taking the poll to see if there was an interest so that I could write the program and sell it.

Thanks for the responses. I'll post some more information later on. :)