Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:25:39 -0500 From: "Gabriel Lavoie" <glavoie@gmail.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In Message-ID: <d05df8620811040925u10286eafkd93506dadccced6d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081104131728.M52930@hub.org> References: <47BB6151991A555176831AB5@ganymede.hub.org> <20081104145343.GA84440@ozzmosis.com> <20081104131728.M52930@hub.org>
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When are the stats updated on bsdstats.org? Thanks Gabriel 2008/11/4 Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Gabriel Lavoie glavoie@gmail.com
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