Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:47:46 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> To: Scott Sipe <cscotts@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite Message-ID: <20060814174709.U7522@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <597A6ADF-BC74-4313-97EA-6A95A9397A98@mindspring.com> References: <20060814100913.S7522@ganymede.hub.org> <200608141330.35085.lists@jnielsen.net> <20060814172750.I7522@ganymede.hub.org> <597A6ADF-BC74-4313-97EA-6A95A9397A98@mindspring.com>
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On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Scott Sipe wrote: > > On Aug 14, 2006, at 4:28 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, John Nielsen wrote: >> >>> This is great! >>> >>> Is the 15-minute first-time waiting period enforced on the server side? >>> Obviously there's nothing to stop an administrator from editing the script >>> locally.. >> >> It is enforced on the server side ... in fact, one person just reported to >> me that they killed the script and re-ran it, and the stats went through >> ... they didn't, the server side will reject the submission until the first >> minute time has elapsed ... I've got some ideas on how to better clean that >> up on the client side ... >> > > This just happened to me as well--I installed the port, added lines to > periodic.conf and manually ran: > > /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics > > output as follows: > > # /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics > chown: /var/db/bsdstats: No such file or directory > To protect against abuse, the initial challenge/response phase > contains a 15 minute pause. Please be patient while this time > limit elapses > ^C > # /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics > Posting monthly OS statistics to bsdstats.org > Posting monthly device statistics to bsdstats.org > Posting monthly CPU statistics to bsdstats.org > > I cancelled it to see why it showed the chown error. chown error fixed in CVS now ... and if you run the script *now*, it will be past the 15 min mark and will submit properly ... ---- 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
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