BSDStats - What is involved ... ?

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 11:44:19PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Brooks Davis wrote:
> 
> >That wouldn't be a big deal.  We've got lots of B(L)AMP applications 
> >running and plenty of FreeBSD servers to run them on.  That might be an 
> >option for me.
> 
> What about the email system that has been discussed already?
> 
> On the first run only:
> 
> HostA emails root, root forwards that to rpt at bsdstats.org, 
> rpt at bsdstats.org sends back text to be added to /var/db/bsdstats ...
> 
> Subsequent runs use the information in /var/db/bsdstats, emails the repot 
> itself to root who then forwards *that* to rpt at bsdstats.org ...
> 
> We're also going to be working on AUTH Proxy, for those that need that ...
> 
> As Antony stated, we no longer store IP/hostname, but the reporting does 
> require the information to get back into /var/db/bsdstats to be used for 
> reporting, so the "non-fetch version" would defintely be a bit more 
> 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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