From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 18:34:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA09865 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:34:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Rigel.orionsys.com (root@rigel.orionsys.com [205.148.224.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA09856 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:33:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dbabler@localhost) by Rigel.orionsys.com (8.7.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA00209 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:33:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:33:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Babler To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Harvest port Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is it just me, or is Harvest one of the most convoluted and unclear systems around? Specifically, after reading everything at the support site (at LEAST twice) I've been able to make it seem to go off and gather data and serve it up. Some not-so-minor points evade me, such as STARTING the thing on rebooting. The only way I've been able to find to start the whole mess up and have it respond is to completely start from scratch every time the system comes up (RunHarvest). There is nowhere that I can find any sort of "this is how you start it" example. Even when started from scratch, it does not ever do what it claims to do: expire data each 12 hours and regather each 24, regardless of what is in the configuration file. Also, the 'examine workload' points to a file which doesn't exist. Heeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllpppppppppppppp! -Dave