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- 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.
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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
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- 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.)
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- Geoff. Lane. Janet: zzassgl@uk.ac.mcc.uts
- UTS Sys Admin, Manchester Computing Centre, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PL
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