BSDstats: New High Water Mark: 25 000+ Hosts Reporting In

[Gabriel Lavoie]

When are the stats updated on bsdstats.org?

Thanks

Gabriel

2008/11/4 Marc G. Fournier <scrappy at hub.org>

> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, andrew clarke wrote:
>
>  On Mon 2008-11-03 18:33:57 UTC-0400, Marc G. Fournier (scrappy at hub.org)
>> wrote:
>>
>>  For FreeBSD users, you just need to install /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats
>>> to set things up.
>>>
>>
>> I stopped using bsdstats after it caused my FreeBSD router to take too
>> long to boot up after a reboot.  If I recall correctly, I had
>> bsdstats_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and after the reboot bsdstats
>> was called before ppp was able to start, so it couldn't connect to the
>> bsdstats server.  On the other hand this was a while ago and I am
>> going by memory, so I may be wrong about what happened or it was just
>> a coincidence.  At the time I was more interested in getting the
>> router running so I didn't really care for debugging what was going
>> on.  I realise this is a bit of a vague bug report, so feel free to
>> ignore it.
>>
>
> There is an optional flag for 'reporting on reboot' ... the original script
> only did reporting monthly, out of periodic, but some ppl (ie. using
> laptops) suggesting an optional flag so that when they rebooted, they would
> be counted also ...
>
> And you are correct, just change:
>
> bsdstats_enable="YES"
>
> to
>
> bsdstats_enable="NO"
>
> And 'on reboot' will eb disabled, and only periodic will be used ... at a
> minimum, you just need:
>
> monthly_statistics_enable="YES"
>
> in /etc/periodic.conf, wich will only report OS/version and skip the
> devices/ports reports ...
>
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Gabriel Lavoie
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