Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 23:51:31 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> To: Antony Mawer <fbsd-arch@mawer.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDStats - What is involved ... ? Message-ID: <20060903235103.X82634@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <44F24FC0.8010800@mawer.org> References: <20060825233420.V82634@hub.org> <20060827230002.GG1149@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20060827205909.K82634@hub.org> <44F23D7A.30604@mawer.org> <20060827221502.56976f1c.rnsanchez@gmail.com> <20060827225631.K82634@hub.org> <44F24FC0.8010800@mawer.org>
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote:
> On 28/08/2006 11:59 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote:
>>> That would be even easier if the dropping of 2 lines was carried out
>>> automatically. I know people lazy enough to deinstall a port if they must
>>> do any post-config for themselves ("make deinstall" is easier than
>>> thinking
>>> for a few seconds).
>>
>> There are several things I want to work on when I get back onto a 'real
>> network' next week ... Matt @ Dragonfly has asked for some 'network
>> detection' code to be added, to check if there is even a network connected,
>> before he'll add it to there base system ... and someone else suggested
>> adding code similar to postfix's port to have *it* prompt and auto-add the
>> appropriate lines to /etc/periodic.conf ...
>
> That may have been me :-) Here's a patch that implements something along
> those lines... anyone care to review/comment on the attached patch? I've only
> tested it very briefly but it appears to do the desired job...
>
> One thing that would be nice to do is to update any existing lines for the
> stats, rather than always adding new lines if the user answers 'y'...
> detecting existing lines could easily be done by sourcing the periodic.conf:
>
> . /etc/periodic.conf
>
> at the top of the file, but I'm not sure the preferred way on how you'd
> update any existng lines if changes were required... perhaps some
> grep/sed-foo magic? :-)
Patch applied, and I added a yesno for actually running the script right
then also ...
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