Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:03:58 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDStats - What is involved ... ? Message-ID: <20060827070358.GJ16768@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20060826132138.H82634@hub.org> References: <20060825233420.V82634@hub.org> <20060826112115.GG16768@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20060826132138.H82634@hub.org>
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--F4+N/OgRSdC8YnqX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2006-Aug-26 13:31:24 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: >>I also feel that the existing implementation has a fairly serious >>defect: It only works on systems that have a direct connection to the >>Internet. This means that I can install it on my systems at home >>(where I have a transparent proxy) but not on the twenty (or so) >>systems that I manage at work - which either have no Internet access >>or require an authenticated proxy for Internet access. > >Unfortunately, I have no ideas on how to get around that issue ... for=20 >instance, the authenticated proxy issue, is there an ENV variable that can= =20 >be set in the script, so that we'd have a variable in periodic.conf to=20 >allow for user/pass/host? You can pass proxy and authentication details to fetch via environment variables. At work, we use a common password for purposes with (IMO) radically different security requirements so I'm not willing to put my the proxy authentication details into rc.conf. >But, the 'no Internet access' is very difficult, if not impossible, to=20 >work around, no? Would 'submit by email' work for something like that?=20 >I'm assuming that although those 20 don't have Internet, they are=20 >connected to some sort of network? I have about 8 hosts being used as firewallk on the far end of dial- on-demand links. The have local networks attached to them but effectively the only way out would be e-mail (probably manually forwarded via root). --=20 Peter Jeremy --F4+N/OgRSdC8YnqX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE8UPe/opHv/APuIcRAiYdAJ9q/kgLN2wnAqqsl1yLA0iwpaDHdgCfdv5l fQJ61kvXi47Xy8V/v0zxzzU= =TXMH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --F4+N/OgRSdC8YnqX--
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