Re: BSDStats - What is involved ... ?

On Saturday 26 August 2006 18:31, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On Fri, 2006-Aug-25 23:36:12 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
In getting this into the base system itself? Opt-in, default turned
off, of course, but maybe as an option in sysinstall to be enabled
easily?

I'd prefer to have it as an easily installed port/package (within
sysinstall) rather than in the base system.

I also feel that the existing implementation has a fairly serious
defect: It only works on systems that have a direct connection to the
Internet. This means that I can install it on my systems at home
(where I have a transparent proxy) but not on the twenty (or so)
systems that I manage at work - which either have no Internet access
or require an authenticated proxy for Internet access.

Unfortunately, I have no ideas on how to get around that issue ... for
instance, the authenticated proxy issue, is there an ENV variable that
can be set in the script, so that we'd have a variable in periodic.conf
to allow for user/pass/host?

fetch(3) makes use of a couple of environment vars to set proxy and
authentification - this should be reuseable. I haven't looked at
BSDStats yet, but if you use fetch - just make sure you have the ENV and
things work.

But, the 'no Internet access' is very difficult, if not impossible, to
work around, no? Would 'submit by email' work for something like that?
I'm assuming that although those 20 don't have Internet, they are
connected to some sort of network?

I guess the easiest way, would be an email to root@ which can be forwarded
to you. This way you can enable it by default and the operator can still
decide if they want to take part in the process.

I've got some work to do based on one requirement that Matt @
DragonflyBSD has for detecting network access, so using that, in
conjunction with emamil, if possible, might work?

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