[buug] login accounting, webmail

[Dave Barry]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 , Brian Sobolak <brian at planetshwoop.com> wrote:
> 
> hi everyone
> 
> I got a message today that said:
> 
> <msg>
> Doing login accounting:
>         total              420.72
>         brian              420.72
> </msg>
> 
> as part of my monthly security run output for my FreeBSD 4.5 box.
> 
> Exactly what does the figure represent?  Anyone point me to a man page
> where I can find more?


	'man ac' provides: 

	>If the file /var/log/wtmp exists, a record of
	>individual login and logout times are written to it by login(1) and
	>init(8), respectively.  Ac examines these records and writes the
	>accumulated connect time (in hours) for all logins to the standard
	>output.

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