Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 23:51:31 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> To: Antony Mawer <fbsd-arch@mawer.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDStats - What is involved ... ? Message-ID: <20060903235103.X82634@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <44F24FC0.8010800@mawer.org> References: <20060825233420.V82634@hub.org> <20060827230002.GG1149@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20060827205909.K82634@hub.org> <44F23D7A.30604@mawer.org> <20060827221502.56976f1c.rnsanchez@gmail.com> <20060827225631.K82634@hub.org> <44F24FC0.8010800@mawer.org>
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote: > On 28/08/2006 11:59 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote: >>> That would be even easier if the dropping of 2 lines was carried out >>> automatically. I know people lazy enough to deinstall a port if they must >>> do any post-config for themselves ("make deinstall" is easier than >>> thinking >>> for a few seconds). >> >> There are several things I want to work on when I get back onto a 'real >> network' next week ... Matt @ Dragonfly has asked for some 'network >> detection' code to be added, to check if there is even a network connected, >> before he'll add it to there base system ... and someone else suggested >> adding code similar to postfix's port to have *it* prompt and auto-add the >> appropriate lines to /etc/periodic.conf ... > > That may have been me :-) Here's a patch that implements something along > those lines... anyone care to review/comment on the attached patch? I've only > tested it very briefly but it appears to do the desired job... > > One thing that would be nice to do is to update any existing lines for the > stats, rather than always adding new lines if the user answers 'y'... > detecting existing lines could easily be done by sourcing the periodic.conf: > > . /etc/periodic.conf > > at the top of the file, but I'm not sure the preferred way on how you'd > update any existng lines if changes were required... perhaps some > grep/sed-foo magic? :-) Patch applied, and I added a yesno for actually running the script right then also ...
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