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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:47:50 -0500
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Max Laier <max@love2party.net>, Antony Mawer <fbsd-arch@mawer.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSDStats - What is involved ... ?
Message-ID:  <20060831144750.GA34402@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:44:19PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Brooks Davis wrote:
>=20
> >That wouldn't be a big deal.  We've got lots of B(L)AMP applications=20
> >running and plenty of FreeBSD servers to run them on.  That might be an=
=20
> >option for me.
>=20
> What about the email system that has been discussed already?
>=20
> On the first run only:
>=20
> HostA emails root, root forwards that to rpt@bsdstats.org,=20
> rpt@bsdstats.org sends back text to be added to /var/db/bsdstats ...
>=20
> Subsequent runs use the information in /var/db/bsdstats, emails the repot=
=20
> itself to root who then forwards *that* to rpt@bsdstats.org ...
>=20
> We're also going to be working on AUTH Proxy, for those that need that ...
>=20
> As Antony stated, we no longer store IP/hostname, but the reporting does=
=20
> require the information to get back into /var/db/bsdstats to be used for=
=20
> reporting, so the "non-fetch version" would defintely be a bit more=20
> involved for the admin ...

I don't understand the proposed data flow well enough to say.  Unless
the operation is easily automated, an action per-machine isn't going
to happen.

-- Brooks

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