Looking for an app for bandwith

[rabbitweed]

...preferably something that can run in a gnome or xfce panel.

I share an internet connection and want something to be able to tell me how much bandwidth I use in the time space of a month.

[ArgonPlasma2000]

You can use a script to read off the received and transmit information from /sbin/ifconfig and add it to a total every time you shut down.

For example:

[AP2k@localhost ~]$ /sbin/ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr **:**:**:**:**:**

          inet addr: ***.***.***.***  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: ****::****:****:****:****/** Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:1131643 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:591919 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:823116761 (784.9 MiB)  TX bytes:203103689 (193.6 MiB)

          Interrupt:18 Base address:0x6800



lo        Link encap:Local Loopback

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:6333 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:6333 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:2801259 (2.6 MiB)  TX bytes:2801259 (2.6 MiB)

[rabbitweed]

I'm a script noob to be honest; all I could do is output the entire results of ipconfig into a text file.

I have no idea how to make me shutting down trigger it, or how to make it add the numbers.

I'd be keen to learn though, what is "adding numbers" and "triggering shit by shutting down" called (ie what would I punch into a search engine)?

anybody point me in the right direction?

[ArgonPlasma2000]

In /etc/rc5.d/ are the scripts that are executed on shutdown and startup. Those starting with K are the scripts that execute on shutdown, and the ones with S get executed on startup. rc5 is the folder you should use if your default runlevel is 5. Its been a while since I had to figure out the default runlevel, but its 5 for Fedora distros, and probably alot of other ones as well.

I'm a script noob as well. I just know that's how I would do it if I could script well.