roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (09/05/87)
I want to be able to write a simple shell script to look through
the uucp log files and produce a simple summary: how many bytes we sent to
and received from each site we talk to, how long we were on the phone, and
who paid for the calls. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any
simple, reliable way to tell from the uucp logs who paid for the call
corresponding to a particular SYSLOG entry. You can try and read both the
SYSLOG and the LOGFILE and correlate the times in both, but that's a real
mess and not alway reliable (think about what happens when you have a call
in progress when you run your daily uucp log cleanup).
My solution was some minor hackery to cico.c to record if the "-r1"
flag was set and to [fgt]io.c to add the word "Master" or "Slave" at the
end of the SYSLOG lines as appropriate. I don't see any other way to get
this information from the log files, but on the other hand, it seems like
such an essential piece of information that I can't believe there isn't
already a better way to do it. How do other sites do this?
If it matters, our uucp machine is a Vax running 4.3BSD.
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Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016