On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 11:49, Yyc wrote: > which is more effective, DB and file access? > > anybody have used ?
I find a db is much nicer, if you have a lot of records and want to access them over a long period of time. If we need to find out what dates/times a user was on it's a simple select statement on a db, we have even got web interfaces so none technical staff can look at this info. Also it makes running stats reports (users who are online for more than 10 hours a day) quite simple to do, as you can get the db to do most of the leg work for you. I am a personal fan of the db accounting, although I would recommend you use a db which has a good speed and method of constant updates and insertions... I think MySQL still suffers from table locking? I use postgres for my accounting db. -- ----- Graeme Hinchliffe (BSc) Core Internet Systems Designer Zen Internet (http://www.zen.co.uk/) Direct: 0845 058 9074 Main : 0845 058 9000 Fax : 0845 058 9005 - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
