Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:48:08 +0200 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BSDStats - What is involved ... ? Message-ID: <200608261848.16513.max@love2party.net> 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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--nextPart2400504.QiXzMRoB8f Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 26 August 2006 18:31, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-Aug-25 23:36:12 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> In getting this into the base system itself? Opt-in, default turned > >> off, of course, but maybe as an option in sysinstall to be enabled > >> easily? > > > > I'd prefer to have it as an easily installed port/package (within > > sysinstall) rather than in the base system. > > > > 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 > instance, the authenticated proxy issue, is there an ENV variable that > can be set in the script, so that we'd have a variable in periodic.conf > to allow for user/pass/host? fetch(3) makes use of a couple of environment vars to set proxy and=20 authentification - this should be reuseable. I haven't looked at=20 BSDStats yet, but if you use fetch - just make sure you have the ENV and=20 things work. > But, the 'no Internet access' is very difficult, if not impossible, to > work around, no? Would 'submit by email' work for something like that? > I'm assuming that although those 20 don't have Internet, they are > connected to some sort of network? I guess the easiest way, would be an email to root@ which can be forwarded= =20 to you. This way you can enable it by default and the operator can still=20 decide if they want to take part in the process. > I've got some work to do based on one requirement that Matt @ > DragonflyBSD has for detecting network access, so using that, in > conjunction with emamil, if possible, might work? =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --nextPart2400504.QiXzMRoB8f Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBE8HtQXyyEoT62BG0RAtweAJ9iTP1khcbdNkvBZV1g9C51BfjZMgCfVdse XdCVBUWxUwiT1T1DpoOdyGw= =iGx7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2400504.QiXzMRoB8f--
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