steiny@idsvax.UUCP (Don Steiny) (05/30/85)
*** This is a combined product description and an inquiry about what I should do with it. It is commercial, but I am a gaint corporation of 1 and I have never sold anything. I NEED HELP. PLUS - I think the tool I wrote can be very useful. I posted this before, but I was using a different newsfeed and I don't think anything was getting out. I have written a utility that allows system administrators to manage UNIX resources. It tallys disk use each night, keeps a summary of CPU use for each user for periods of the day defined by the system administrator, and summarizes login time by periods of the day defined by the system administrator. The system administrator may set rates for the resources use and assign users to different rate groups. The system administrator may see the resource use of any user and users may look at their own resource use. The information is summarized and hashed by daemons and so the user gets the information rapidly without long searches through accounting files. The summary files grow slowly for systems (like ours) without copious extra disk space. It can prepare statements with the proper nroff requests inserted so they can just be nroffed and printed. The interface is in an appropriate subset of English. Besides the obvious use for time-sharing services, it is also a valuable tool for universities, development environments, and software services companies. It allows me to instantly see a day-by-day breakdown of disk use of news. The utility has been beta tested on two systems. It works on 4.1bsd, 4.2bsd, and Wollongong Version 7 (on an Interdata 8/32). I would really like to market this program. I put a lot of energy into it, and I believe it is needed. Its organization takes into acount many variables that are handled appropriately, reflecting my many years experience administering UNIX systems. I have no fixed idea on how I am going to sell the program. I would be especially interested in any companies that would like to market third party UNIX software. I would prefer a long-term arraingment, because I have about a dozen other programs that have been prototyped and would like to market when I finish them. I have not ported it to System V, though I am very familiar with System V and know that it will be a peice of cake (4.1 to 4.2 was a little trickier - it tallies disk use by reading the inode table). I do not have a System V system to use. I make my living doing software subcontracting and use whatever system I can scam time on to do the development and testing. Does anyone out there in netland have any ideas about what I should do? Is anyone interested in a tool like the one I described above? I will appreciate any input. Call, write, or email! - Don Steiny 109 Torrey Pine Terrace Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 (408) 425-0382 ihnp4!pesnta!idsvax!steiny