[plug] Task scheduling was Volume accounting

[John Clayton]

Well had a look at iptables and I think they are perfect. Thanks for telling 
me that they had this feature. I downloaded the iptables Tutorial by Oskar 
Andreasson and have been having fun learning about them.

Now to reset the counters on my ISP anniversary.

I have looked at the various scheduling tools cron anacron and at that are 
available bu I have not figured out how to use then to do what I want.

What I want is to reset the counters in iptables after 12:01 am on the 15th 
of each each month at the soonest possibility.

If the computer is off from 14th-16th I want the counters reset first thing 
when the computer is next turned on.

at has the required fine control of when a job will take place but if the 
computer is not on at the time then the job does not get done and the job 
only happens once.

cron has the regularity but also does not do the job if the computer is off 
at the time the job needs to take place and I have not seen how it would 
have the required degree of control to make sure the job happened as soon as 
possible after 12:01 am.

anacron can handle the computer being off at the time the job needs to 
happen but I also do not know how to configure it to have the fineness of 
control to execute at the required time.

I would rather use these tools if they can be configured to do what I want 
than write a script to do it as I do not want to reinvent the wheel and I am 
sure that such configuration options could be useful in the future.

What I would like is something that might be called anaat. Something that 
makes sure at jobs are done as soon as the computer is turned back on if the 
job was scheduled while the computer was turned off.

Any help greatly appreciated



>From: Trent Lloyd <trent at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
>Subject: Re: [plug] Volume accounting
>Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 06:24:49 +0800
>
>iptables has counters
>
>iptables -nvL INPUT
>should show you incoming data
>
>if you want to customize it you can add rules, for example all data coming 
>in ppp0 (if thats your dialup iface)
>
>iptables -A INPUT -i ppp0
>
>then iptables -nvL INPUT
>and the counter should be there
>
>man iptables for more information, clearing counters, etc.
>
>the other thing you might want to look at is 'ipac (ip accounting)'
>
>Cheers,
>Trent
>
>
>
> > Hi all I was wondering if anyone knew of any internet usage accounting
> > software that I can use to track my download limit. Tried kppp but I 
>have
> > not found it to be very useful as the logging seems to be very 
>intermitent.
> > Something that can monitor that is independant of a dialler would be 
>nice
> > but not necessary.

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