[Unixcert] Another program to summarize accounting information

[Glen Jarvis]

Since the runacct program is available only to Solaris Source code
licensees:

 http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-5166/6mbb1kqg3/index.html

I have made a mini program that will let you summarize lastcomm data by
date and time.

For example:

If I wanted the Joe account information from last comm, but I want it
summarized only between two time periods, I could do something like the
following:

lastcomm joeaccount  | ./lastcomm_summary.py --start="2012-09-01 16:52"
--end="2012-09-01 17:00" | more

The program currently parses based upon SuSE output, so we may need to make
it more flexible if other OSs are needed and the output isn't the same
fixed field format that it currently is in SuSE. Also, I only summarize the
number of seconds and a list of programs (printed only once). We could be
as flexible as we want with this.

I'm sharing it with anyone who will find it useful:

1) save to local filesystem (file: lastcomm_summary.py) (file attached)
2) chmod u+x lastcomm_summary.py
3) pipe some lastcomm data through it such as follows:

lastcomm  | ./lastcomm_summary.py --start="2012-09-01 16:00"
--end="2012-09-01 17:00" | more


Now, we can summarize hourly, daily, every five minutes, monthly, or
whatever we wish.  Of course, log management of the lastcomm log will still
need to be considered if it gets humongous. But, this is also manageable.

It was written in a one-time sitting, so please feel free to give bug
reports.


Cheers,


Glen
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unearth it, and gnaw it still."

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