From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 14 20:47:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDEDD16A4DE for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:47:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73D1A43D45 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:47:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 026D4290C74; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:47:43 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11653-07; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:47:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F059D290C20; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:47:41 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id A6B4C3EBEA; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:47:46 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A583C345BF; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:47:46 -0300 (ADT) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:47:46 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: freebsd@ganymede.hub.org To: Scott Sipe In-Reply-To: <597A6ADF-BC74-4313-97EA-6A95A9397A98@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20060814174709.U7522@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060814100913.S7522@ganymede.hub.org> <200608141330.35085.lists@jnielsen.net> <20060814172750.I7522@ganymede.hub.org> <597A6ADF-BC74-4313-97EA-6A95A9397A98@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:47:47 -0000 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