pppd log analysis

[zouo]

Does anyone know of an app to analyse my pppd log? I specifically want to know all the decent stuff like how long I was on line for, how long it took to connect, redial attempts, blah, blah, blah.....

I've seen a perl script called pppsum and I have a copy but I've not tried it yet. I was really looking for something with a GUI or something that could output nice graphs and eye candy.

[PolyPill]

I know you can get a gui all purpose system monitor called gkrellm and it has a lot of different plugins and stuff.

I know it has connection time.

You might just want to go to http://www.freshmeat.net and search for ppp and see what's available, I'm sure you can find something or a combination of programs that will do what you want.

There's also log files in /var/log/ you can poke through for that kind of information, I don't use dialup so I'm not sure what the log names are.

[XWRed1]

If you were to use something like kppp to control your dialup connections, it would show some of that info to you.

[zouo]

Cheers. I found ppplogger on Freshmeat so I shall give that a try.

That perl script is also not too shabby and saves me a lot of time picking through my logfile.