BSDStats - What is involved ... ?

[Marc G. Fournier]

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 ...