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[AlaskanWolf]

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]

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]

I've already got MRTG (thats how i found out)

How do i go about turning on process accounting?

[cperciva]

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]

thanks

[AlaskanWolf]

Anyone have the install file for Process Accounting on Linux?

http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/sys...t-modified.tgz

doesnt work