Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-05 Thread Damian Wiest
On 10/5/06, Greg Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/4/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What the software is measuring, or is trying to measure, is the number of active *BSD installations there are ... So why doesn't it do only that? Just Systems This Month: 2938 and

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-04 Thread Marian Hettwer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ingo, Ingo Schwarze wrote: I doubt the project is worth the effort at all. Whatever numbers might result will be heavily biased. Of course it's biased. It's statistics of running *BSD systems. How could that possibly not biased?! BSDstats is

Re: [MAYBE SPAM] Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-04 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 02:51:51PM -0500, Damian Wiest wrote: | Do whatever you like. I'm simply stating my preference and providing | an alternative setup for people to consider. I don't find receiving | 200+ messages a day from cron jobs running on the network with identical | subject lines to

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-04 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Marian, Marian Hettwer wrote on Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 11:08:11AM +0200: Ingo Schwarze wrote: I doubt the project is worth the effort at all. Whatever numbers might result will be heavily biased. To clarify: As far as i understood, BSDstats intends to measure the number of *BSD systems in

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
--On Tuesday, October 03, 2006 06:57:31 +0200 Ingo Schwarze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote on Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 10:28:34PM -0300: Can someone that has installed BSDstats on your server please email me instructions on *how* to install it for your flavor of BSD? I doubt

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-04 Thread Greg Thomas
On 10/4/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What the software is measuring, or is trying to measure, is the number of active *BSD installations there are ... So why doesn't it do only that? Just Systems This Month: 2938 and the numbers broken down by country or continent. Greg

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-04 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
I for one do not mind that, BSDstats breaks out the BSD operating systems. I only wish that someone with sufficient knowledge would put the BSDstats script in the OpenBSD ports tree. because if I could install it I could add 27 OpenBSD systems. Sam Fourman Jr. On 10/5/06, Greg Thomas [EMAIL

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-03 Thread Damian Wiest
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 07:54:05PM -0400, Adam wrote: Damian Wiest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose your cron jobs don't emit output, which any good job shouldn't do. Huh? If you want a task to run on a schedule, and then mail you the results, then cron is exactly what you want. Any

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-03 Thread Adam
Damian Wiest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 07:54:05PM -0400, Adam wrote: Damian Wiest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose your cron jobs don't emit output, which any good job shouldn't do. Huh? If you want a task to run on a schedule, and then mail you the

Re: [MAYBE SPAM] Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-03 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:06:20PM -0400, Adam wrote: Damian Wiest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 07:54:05PM -0400, Adam wrote: Damian Wiest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose your cron jobs don't emit output, which any good job shouldn't do. Huh? If

Re: [MAYBE SPAM] Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-03 Thread Adam
Damian Wiest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do whatever you like. I'm simply stating my preference and providing an alternative setup for people to consider. I don't find receiving 200+ messages a day from cron jobs running on the network with identical subject lines to be a particularly good

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-02 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 11:46:48PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=periodicapropos=1 Perfect, now, what the man page doesnt' seem to indicate is where the best place for putting the 'config variables' ... under FreeBSD, this goes in

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-02 Thread Martin Schröder
2006/10/2, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can someone that has installed BSDstats on your server please email me instructions on *how* to install it for your flavor of BSD? I Usually through ports(7). Best Martin

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-02 Thread Antti Harri
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Jason LaRiviere wrote: $ ls -l /var/log/*.out -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1693 Oct 1 01:31 /var/log/daily.out -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel15 Oct 1 05:30 /var/log/monthly.out -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel59 Sep 30 03:32 /var/log/weekly.out Hello everyone, can anyone tell

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-02 Thread Nick Holland
Cross-list addresses removed. Come on, is it so difficult to post the same message (or even lightly personalized message?) three or four times so we can minimize the cross-list trash that results from people hitting group reply mindlessly? Marc G. Fournier wrote: The point of using periodic, at

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-02 Thread Damian Wiest
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 08:21:30PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:02:34AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: The point of using periodic, at least under FreeBSD, is that there is a 'report' that is issued at the end of the monthly periodic run letting the admin know

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-02 Thread Adam
Damian Wiest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose your cron jobs don't emit output, which any good job shouldn't do. Huh? If you want a task to run on a schedule, and then mail you the results, then cron is exactly what you want. Any good job does what its author wants it to. If they want it to

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-02 Thread Manuel Bouyer
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:02:34AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: The point of using periodic, at least under FreeBSD, is that there is a 'report' that is issued at the end of the monthly periodic run letting the admin know the status of various things on their servers ... So, for

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-02 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone that has installed BSDstats on your server please email me instructions on *how* to install it for your flavor of BSD? I've put together a very rough draft for a BSDstats getting started guide, available for digestion and criticism at

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-02 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 08:21:30PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:02:34AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: The point of using periodic, at least under FreeBSD, is that there is a 'report' that is issued at the end of the monthly periodic run letting the admin know

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-02 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Marc G. Fournier wrote on Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 10:28:34PM -0300: Can someone that has installed BSDstats on your server please email me instructions on *how* to install it for your flavor of BSD? I doubt the project is worth the effort at all. Whatever numbers might result will be heavily

Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Can someone that has installed BSDstats on your server please email me instructions on *how* to install it for your flavor of BSD? I do not believe that either OpenBSD or NetBSD has a 'periodic' system similar to FreeBSDs, and would like to put something up on the site explaining how to

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
--On Sunday, October 01, 2006 22:04:05 -0400 Jeremy Huiskamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1-Oct-06, at 9:28 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Can someone that has installed BSDstats on your server please email me instructions on *how* to install it for your flavor of BSD? I do not believe that

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-01 Thread Jeremy Huiskamp
On 1-Oct-06, at 9:28 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Can someone that has installed BSDstats on your server please email me instructions on *how* to install it for your flavor of BSD? I do not believe that either OpenBSD or NetBSD has a 'periodic' system similar to FreeBSDs, and would like to

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-01 Thread matthew sporleder
On 10/1/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone that has installed BSDstats on your server please email me instructions on *how* to install it for your flavor of BSD? I do not believe that either OpenBSD or NetBSD has a 'periodic' system similar to FreeBSDs, and would like to

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
The point of using periodic, at least under FreeBSD, is that there is a 'report' that is issued at the end of the monthly periodic run letting the admin know the status of various things on their servers ... So, for instance, it would give them a monthly reminder that the script *is* running

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-01 Thread Jason LaRiviere
Marc G. Fournier wrote: The point of using periodic, at least under FreeBSD, is that there is a 'report' that is issued at the end of the monthly periodic run letting the admin know the status of various things on their servers ... So, for instance, it would give them a monthly reminder