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Article #10Re: Can project based accounting be done on Unix?
From: Geoff Lane
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 08:33
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 08:33
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In article <Bs6205.22L@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> lindsay@watnow.waterloo.edu (Lindsay Patten) writes: >Can you not just record the time and project name when they change >projects and then go through the process accounting assigning the >cost of the process to the project then in effect? >Lindsay Patten The information stored in the accounting records for UTS (which is the system I have to deal with) does not allow unambiguious mapping of the project information to user processes. UTS Unix allows multiple concurrent logins to the same userid and the controlling tty field (the obvious first thing to use to distinguish the logins) is not aways maintained correctly (XDM logins, for instance, need not, and on UTS, do not, update the utmp or wtmp files. There are other sources of user processes, such as batch work run under NQS, where there is no controlling tty at all.) -- Geoff. Lane. Janet: zzassgl@uk.ac.mcc.uts UTS Sys Admin, Manchester Computing Centre, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PL
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!mucs!mccuts!zzassgl From: zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane) Newsgroups: comp.unix.large Subject: Re: Can project based accounting be done on Unix? Message-ID: <5469@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 30 Jul 92 08:33:37 GMT References: <5453@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> <Bs6205.22L@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL. Lines: 22