uutraf(1)

uutraf1

Uucp traffic analyzator and cost estimator.

Usage

uutraf [-h,--help] [-v,--version]

Overview

uutraf takes a logfile and a statfile produced by Taylor UUCP and displays information summaries from these files. For each site, the following items will be calculated:

• number of transferred files,
• size of transferred files,
• number of transferred mails,
• size of transferred mails,
• the combined (total) size of all the above,
• average character/second rate (received and sent),
• Up/Down-ratio (uploads/downloads),
• Efficiency (up- or downloading time/connection time).

The site-dependent parameters are taken from /etc/uucp/uutraf.cf.

These parameters are globally calculated:

• Start and end period of the logfile file,
• the totals of the site-dependent values.

Options

-h,--help

stands for help

-v,--version

prints out the current version of uutraf and exits.

-n,--news

Display separate statistics for news articles.

-N,--nonews

Do not display separate statistics for news articles.

-s name,--hostname name

sets the local hostname to name. The local hostname is shown in the banner of the output (there is normally no need to specify a hostname with -s since, it's queried with the gethostname(2) call. This option is only useful if you are processing logfilesandstatfiles from other hosts).

Files

/etc/uucp/uutraf.cf

Cost information about UUCP sites.

Acknowledgments

The original idea and display layout was taken from John Vroman's Perl script - also named uutraf.

Releases

10 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 1.1
  2. 1.2–5.0

--hostname since Debian 1.2 (Rex); --news since Debian 1.2 (Rex); --nonews since Debian 1.2 (Rex); -N since Debian 1.2 (Rex); -n since Debian 1.2 (Rex); -s since Debian 1.2 (Rex).

Authors

David Frey made the original program.
Yves Arrouye added modifications.

Bugs

The cost estimation is not as exact as desired; some heuristics are hard-coded. Complex scenarios, for example retransmissions of partly sent files, will be accounted in a wrong way.

uutraf(1) assumes that calls are only done during one tariffary period (eg. all low rate calls).

From uutraf 1.1-13 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.