From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 17:19:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E98CE1065680 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:19:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9F468FC21 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:19:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1802411A2C84; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:19:55 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 61234-05; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:19:54 -0400 (AST) Received: by hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id A182111A2878; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:19:54 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95A4A11A2876; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:19:54 -0400 (AST) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:19:54 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: andrew clarke In-Reply-To: <20081104145343.GA84440@ozzmosis.com> Message-ID: <20081104131728.M52930@hub.org> References: <47BB6151991A555176831AB5@ganymede.hub.org> <20081104145343.GA84440@ozzmosis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In 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: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:19:56 -0000 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