Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:46:49 +0300 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDStats Report for December 1st, 2006 Message-ID: <70354598@bsam.ru> In-Reply-To: <D5CC735B0941322F588DF1CD@ganymede.hub.org> (Marc G. Fournier's message of "Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:28:15 -0400") References: <D1D335A2174E8CD8E64AB5F1@ganymede.hub.org> <70378354@bsam.ru> <B1926789D4ADDF11735EF7C3@ganymede.hub.org> <81086419@bsam.ru> <D5CC735B0941322F588DF1CD@ganymede.hub.org>
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On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:28:15 -0400 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > --On Monday, December 04, 2006 02:07:08 +0300 Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> > wrote: > > On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:05:04 -0400 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > >> If its diskless, will each reboot end up reporting as a whole new host each > >> time, or is there some way of saving that /var/db/bsdstats across reboots? > > > > We use memory mounted /var. :-( > > Ok, let's only our servers do the reporting. > 'k, I'm clueless on diskless, so this may or may not be doable ... but would it > be possible to cp the bsdstats file from the 'disk mount server' to > /var/db/bsdstats on reboot? > Say, something scripted like: > if [ ! -f /var/db/bsdstats ]; then > if [ -f <remotemount>/bsdstats.`hostname` ]; then > cp <remotemount>/bsdstats.`hostname` /var/db/bsdstats > else > run 300.statistics > cp /var/db/bsdstats <remotemount>/bsdstats.`hostname` > fi > fi Yes, those machines use NFS home directories which may be used. Thanks for the tip. > Add something like that (real code at least) to the init/rc file used on the > diskless station, to be run after all mounts are up? As I said I'm afraid those machines may give some destabilization to bsdstats results when the First of month is a holiday/weekend. So I'm not sure if it's a good thing to report them to bsdstats.org. What do you think? WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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