---
name: "monthstats"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "trafstats"
version: "0.4.20-1"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/monthstats"
---

# monthstats(8)

tallies the data generated by trafstats and generates usage statistics of the specified month

## NAME

monthstats — tallies the data generated by trafstats  and generates usage statistics of the specified month

## SYNOPSIS

**monthstats \[month\]**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the  **monthstats** command.

**monthstats** is a simple perl script   with a single purpose: to tally the data generated by     **trafstats** and generate a readable bandwidth usage summary  for the network addresses in **/etc/trafstats/watchnets** of the given month.

## OPTIONS

There is only one option at this time, and that is the name of  the month you want to see the traffic for -- in English.

## SEE ALSO

[trafstats(8)](/trafstats/8.md)

## FILES

**/etc/trafstats/watchnets** This file should contain a list of network   addresses in the standard ipv4 formats (host, or host/mask), one  per line. Empty lines and shell comments (#) are ignored.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Rens Houben \<shadur@systemec.nl\> for  the **Debian GNU/Linux** system (but may be used by others).  Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU Free Documentation  License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free  Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover  Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.