[lug] User Monitoring

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 04:25:38PM -0600, dave at evad.info wrote:
>Is there any nice tools out there that does not require SNMP to report how much
>bandwidth and disk space a user uses in a day or so?

Disc space is fairly easy, just scan the disc and either report on files
owned by them or files in their directories.  The former will miss files
that they've chowned to another user (if you are allowing them to do that),
the latter will miss files placed in /tmp, etc...

Bandwidth used by each user is going to require that you use iptables
"owner" match and pull stats from the iptables rules.

Sean
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