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

Gabriel Lavoie glavoie at gmail.com
Wed Nov 5 07:29:41 PST 2008


Good, my system finally appeared.

Gabriel

2008/11/5 Gabriel Lavoie <glavoie at gmail.com>

> That's strange, because I enabled the reporting on my system but its CPU
> that wasn't on the list didn't appear.
>
>
> Gabriel
>
> 2008/11/4 Marc G. Fournier <scrappy at hub.org>
>
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>> - --On Tuesday, November 04, 2008 12:25:39 -0500 Gabriel Lavoie
>> <glavoie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > When are the stats updated on bsdstats.org?
>>
>> real-time ... and they aren't "for all time", the #s are based on systems
>> reporting in over the past 60 days, so you will periodically see a bit of
>> back
>> tracking, depending on when in the cycle hosts reported in ... if I reload
>> the
>> page a few times, I may see it go from 25 013 -> 25 103 -> 25 143 -> 25
>> 140 ...
>> but the overall is an upward increase in numbers ...
>>
>>
>> >
>> > 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 ...
>> >>
>> >> ----
>> >> Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (
>> http://www.hub.org
>> >> )
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