At 10:52 01/13/2000 +1030, Mark Newton wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 08:29:44AM -0500, Tom Embt wrote:
>
> > >This would be great, but I wonder from what source we could take reliable
> > >data about -current's stability.
> >
> > How 'bout some sort of client program that is run via the rc.d and
> > rc.shutdown scripts?
>
>One of the more annoying aspects of IRIX in its default config is
>that whenever you do a halt or reboot it'd pop up a menu to ask why.
>That information, together with crash dump info and other data about
>system failures, can be funnelled into a mail filter which records
>historical reliability data; That data can (optionally) be sent back
>to SGI too.
>
>We could provide something like this, but (a) if it's on by default
>it'll suck rocks, and (b) if it's off by default nobody will bother
>turning it on. Hey ho!
>
> - mark
>
Hmm, well the menu thing would surely suck, but we wouldn't really need
that info anyway. Perhaps if the startup/shutdown info was just written to
/var/log/<something> and people could optionally enable (as in off by
default) something in /etc/rc.conf to actually send the info back to a
master server on a regular basis. Even if the info isn't sent to the
master it could be parsed locally if so desired.
Again, just ideas..
Tom Embt
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