Hello Jamie, the idea is rather interesting. I've thought implementing it via a signal handler. This way we also avoid timing troubles (signals could be sent via crontab scripts, for example). In future, such signal handler might be used to send (either to the console or syslog) further status, statistics, summaries (any idea at this propo ?).
I've reserved for such handler the SIGUSR1; in the most simple case (a single pmacctd instance running on the box) the following command will suffice: killall -USR1 pmacctd In more complex scenarios one might resort to the pidfile. I've made available a fresh tarball which contains the above implementation: http://www.ba.cnr.it/~paolo/pmacct/pmacct-0.9.1-20050805.tar.gz As usual, feel free to download and evaluate it but remember to upgrade as soon as the final version is released. Comments ? Cheers, Paolo
