Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:15:51 -0400 From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Gabriel Lavoie <glavoie@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In Message-ID: <6325A1EC2612A377A50F6576@ganymede.hub.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, November 04, 2008 12:25:39 -0500 Gabriel Lavoie <glavoie@gmail.com> wrote: > When are the stats updated on bsdstats.org? real-time ... and they aren't "for all time", the #s are based on systems reporting in over the past 60 days, so you will periodically see a bit of back tracking, depending on when in the cycle hosts reported in ... if I reload the page a few times, I may see it go from 25 013 -> 25 103 -> 25 143 -> 25 140 ... but the overall is an upward increase in numbers ... > > Thanks > > Gabriel > > 2008/11/4 Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> > >> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, andrew clarke wrote: >> >> On Mon 2008-11-03 18:33:57 UTC-0400, Marc G. Fournier (scrappy@hub.org) >>> wrote: >>> >>> For FreeBSD users, you just need to install /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats >>>> to set things up. >>>> >>> >>> I stopped using bsdstats after it caused my FreeBSD router to take too >>> long to boot up after a reboot. If I recall correctly, I had >>> bsdstats_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and after the reboot bsdstats >>> was called before ppp was able to start, so it couldn't connect to the >>> bsdstats server. On the other hand this was a while ago and I am >>> going by memory, so I may be wrong about what happened or it was just >>> a coincidence. At the time I was more interested in getting the >>> router running so I didn't really care for debugging what was going >>> on. I realise this is a bit of a vague bug report, so feel free to >>> ignore it. >>> >> >> There is an optional flag for 'reporting on reboot' ... the original script >> only did reporting monthly, out of periodic, but some ppl (ie. using >> laptops) suggesting an optional flag so that when they rebooted, they would >> be counted also ... >> >> And you are correct, just change: >> >> bsdstats_enable="YES" >> >> to >> >> bsdstats_enable="NO" >> >> And 'on reboot' will eb disabled, and only periodic will be used ... at a >> minimum, you just need: >> >> monthly_statistics_enable="YES" >> >> in /etc/periodic.conf, wich will only report OS/version and skip the >> devices/ports reports ... >> >> ---- >> Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org >> ) >> Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org >> Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > > -- > Gabriel Lavoie > glavoie@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" - -- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkRHfcACgkQ4QvfyHIvDvMP1gCfWcuWqCGNWSR5HuGSO4vgRwLb Y0EAn3+Pi3/1+eM/mxmKFrF7AFTMQBbv =yRDb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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