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AlaskanWolf
11-15-2001, 06:08 PM
Anyone have some great solutions to monitoring bandwidth usage and ssh monitoring?

one of my servers burst to 9.2M for about 2 hours this morning (up and down of course) and theres no real way of knowing what the customer did, or who it was. It was all outgoing traffic.....

cperciva
11-15-2001, 06:28 PM
Well, for monitoring bandwidth, MRTG is a good start. As for working out how all that bandwidth was used, process accounting is a good start (if you've enabled it; unfortunately it isn't enabled by default).

AlaskanWolf
11-15-2001, 06:30 PM
I've already got MRTG (thats how i found out)

How do i go about turning on process accounting?

cperciva
11-15-2001, 06:32 PM
On FreeBSD, simply add accounting_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf; on linux, you'll almost certainly need to recompile your kernel -- the option is probably called "BSD process accounting".

AlaskanWolf
11-15-2001, 06:42 PM
thanks

AlaskanWolf
11-15-2001, 07:53 PM
Anyone have the install file for Process Accounting on Linux?

http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/admin/quota-acct-modified.tgz

doesnt work