>>>>> "Hare" == hare ram <hareram@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Hare> Hi Stef Thats right, if i make cron job run every 5min, so i Hare> will loose only 5min of data. Hare> i was not understand " You can record the difference between Hare> the 2 reads and discard negative values. " Hare> you mean to say first 5min and next 5min bytes increasing ok Hare> if not i will discard and take new values you mean. Hare> If i make the log to mysql, so it will be 24hours right is Hare> there anything i can make every 5min dump the data to Mysql Hare> using ULOG ...or just use iptables -L -v -z to read the counters afresh each 5 minutes. -z will zero them out after displaying the current values. -- Raju -- Raj Mathur raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/