Re: your mail

Old Man (oldman@cosmo.mitec.net)
Wed, 4 Sep 1996 11:58:43 -0500 (CDT)

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On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Dave Andersen wrote:
> Syslog is treated as "well, if it gets there, it gets there. If it
> doesn't, who cares."
> The RADIUS accounting files are treated as "if it doesn't get there, I'm
> GOING to get it there."
> You're likely to have some duplicate accounting entries in your RADIUS
> accounting files, but nearly all RADIUS events are going to be logged
> properly at least once. In fact, if the portmaster didn't crash or
> exceed its accounting backlog (unlikely in a calm network environment),
> it's almost certain.

Duplicate accounting records... wouldn't this make it hard, for say a perl
script, to count how long a user has been online?

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