bsdstats

[Marc G. Fournier]

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- --On Saturday, March 03, 2007 10:57:29 -0300 Sergio Lenzi <lenzi at k1.com.br> 
wrote:

> Em S?, 2007-03-03 às 09:27 +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze escreveu:
>
>> Sergio Lenzi wrote:
>> > Question:  Does the thin clients count as Freebsd servers in bsdstats???
>>
>> If each client runs the bsdstats script and has its own hostname, yes.
>>
>
>
> Yes. that is the case... the thin clients have hostnames like:
> cob.propagar, julia.propagar, comercial5.propagar....
>
> that is: there is an internal NIS domain with DNS for email routing..
> and we expect to have several by the end of this year... where will be
> freebsd "by the dozen"...
> when the thin clients boots, it executes the script
> "daemon /usr/local/etc/periodic ...."
> is that right???  or should execute the script only once a month???

Good question here ... 'thin client' ... how does that handle the /var/db 
directory?

bsdstats creates a 'state file' in /var/db that contains unique identifies for 
the client connecting, so that a) its anonymous and b) it reports as the same 
host regardless of IP changes ...

so, if /var/db is maintained across reboots, then running the stats script on 
reboot will make sure the host is always reported, and /var/db/bsdstats will 
make sure it doesn't report it as a new host each time its rebooted ..

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