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Re: (ASCEND) Users On-Line Time via HTML

On Tue, Aug 05, 1997 at 01:34:30PM -0400, Talbert K. Coker wrote:
>  I am looking for a script that would allow my users 
> to see how much time they have used during the 
> month.  They would need to access it from a web page 
> using their username and password capture the 
> information from the radius detail file and display 
> it on a second html page.
> 
> I am not looking for a complete accounting package 
> but just  a service for my subscribers.
> 
> Can anyone help or point me in the right direction.

I'm using a minimalistic shell script as CGI-BIN for that problem.
The reason for it to be minimalistic is that I have patched my radius
daemon to not log the pletora of stuff it is usually logging in this
"dedicated format for beeing hard to parse", but instead it logs:

<tstamp> Start <username>
<tstamp> Stop <username> <seconds> <bytes-in> <bytes-out>

For obvious reasons, I renamed the log file from "detail" to "summary" ;)

With the above, the collection is a matter of some lines of GNU awk alike:

$2 == "Stop" {
 if($3 != "") {
  month = strftime("%y%m ", $1);
  secs[month,$3] += $4;
  bytes[month,$3] += $5;
  bytes[month,$3] += $6;
 }
}

END {
 for(profile in secs) {
  unit = "bytes";
  ub = bytes[profile];
  if(ub > 1024) {
   ub /= 1024;
   unit = "Kbytes";
   if(ub > 1024) {
    ub /= 1024;
    unit = "Mbytes";
   }
  }
  printf "%-24s: %12g s %12g %s\n", profile, secs[profile], ub, unit;
 }
}

The hard part is not the collection, but the patch to the deamon. I would
provide a diff to patch(1) it, but the relevant code has moved from file
to file and my patch won't work with your sources (likely).

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