Administering BNU

Accounting log

The accounting log contains information needed for network charging. Upon completing a successful job transaction, accounting information is written to file /var/spool/uucp/.Admin/account. If the job transaction is a file transfer, then accounting information is written to file /var/spool/uucp/.Admin/account on the requesting site. If the job transaction is a remote execution, then accounting information is written to file /var/spool/uucp/.Admin/account on the executing (target) site.

Accounting is optional. Accounting information is collected only if an account file exists and is writable by uucp; the file is not created automatically. The system administrator can therefore start or stop accounting by creating or removing the accounting log.

The following is a typical accounting log entry:

user jobID size status class grade origsys origlogin \
time destsys destlogin device netID type command

where:

user: user ID
jobID: job ID assigned by uucp
size: size of job in bytes if the job transaction is a file transfer; time of job in seconds if the job transaction is a remote execution.
status: C = job completed. P = partial job completed.
class: service class of the job, namely: premium, standard, or economy. At present, only standard service class is supported.
grade: job grade identification
origsys: originating system's name
origlogin: originator's login name
time: date and time the job originated
destsys: destination system's name
destlogin: destination user's login name
device: device name of media
netID: ID of physical network (always "")
type: type of transaction: xfer = file transfer, rexe = remote execution.
command: The command if the job transaction is a remote execution (otherwise "").

An example entry is:

5432 mach1N11152 4514 C S A ihnp1 peterca (5/20-3:10:12) mach1 davejo DKH "" xfer ""