Accounting for users' time

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We need to charge our users for their time on certain of our systems and don't have the money to buy commercial software.

We are trying to use the basic accounting system that is already available on RedHat systems.
A few of the systems on which we need accounting are at 2.4.18-26.7.x; we are upgrading them to
2.4.21-27.0.4.EL


Why does the output from the ac program not agree with the output from the last command for a specific user?

We want only to charge the person for a login session at the console, from login to logout. Is there a way to pick out those times from jobs that the user might have left running in the background or jobs that he/she starts remotely?


[root@x log]# ac -p -f user1mp.1 | grep user1 user1 0.71


[root@x log]# last -f user1mp.1 | grep user1
user1 pts/1 Thu Apr 28 17:34 - 20:39 (03:05)
user1 pts/0 Thu Apr 28 17:34 - 17:41 (00:07)
user1 pts/1 Thu Apr 21 14:45 - 15:27 (00:42)
user1 pts/0 Thu Apr 21 14:45 - 14:53 (00:08)
user1 pts/1 Tue Apr 19 17:28 - 18:53 (01:24)
user1 pts/0 Tue Apr 19 17:28 - 17:35 (00:07)
user1 pts/2 Tue Apr 5 18:42 - 19:31 (00:48)
user1 pts/0 Tue Apr 5 18:42 - 18:47 (00:05)
user1 pts/2 Tue Apr 5 18:16 - 18:42 (00:25)
user1 pts/0 Tue Apr 5 18:16 - 18:22 (00:06)
user1 pts/2 Tue Apr 5 09:35 - 11:03 (01:27)
user1 pts/0 Tue Apr 5 09:35 - 09:42 (00:07)
user1mp.1 begins Fri Apr 1 08:14:21 2005
[root@x log]# last -f user1mp.1 | grep user1 | grep "ps/0"
[root@x log]# last -f user1mp.1 | grep user1 | grep "pts/0"
user1 pts/0 Thu Apr 28 17:34 - 17:41 (00:07)
user1 pts/0 Thu Apr 21 14:45 - 14:53 (00:08)
user1 pts/0 Tue Apr 19 17:28 - 17:35 (00:07)
user1 pts/0 Tue Apr 5 18:42 - 18:47 (00:05)
user1 pts/0 Tue Apr 5 18:16 - 18:22 (00:06)
user1 pts/0 Tue Apr 5 09:35 - 09:42 (00:07)


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