30 May
2019
30 May
'19
10:57 p.m.
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:30 AM Grant Taylor via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
(Credit the Quotas thread for prompting this.)
Did anyone ever use process accounting? Did they actually bill
departments (funny money)?
I was always intrigued by process accounting, but never had a use for it
myself.
I guess I can thank process accounting for causing the discrepancy that
Cliff Stole tracked down that became The Cuckoo's Egg. :-)
I had it enabled on my FreeBSD boxes and got monthly usage stats. I did it
to make sure that there were no weird users with time, and that the typical
usage was "what I expected". Never detected anything amiss with this, and
at some point I retired all those old boxes and with them the monthly
reporting email.
Warner