-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 David Hawthorne wrote: | I have a piece of software I've been working on that gathers stats about | the local host and shoves them into rrd files, with an accompanying web | front-end page that generates pretty graphs from the RRDs on demand. I | have a package done up for it, and I'd like to add it to the ports tree | eventually, but I'm stuck on how to get it to automagically add the | cronjob to have the stats gathering script run every five minutes, and I | don't know of any ports that add cronjobs off the top of my head to go | look at. | | Is there an approved standard for doing this? It doesn't have to be as | root, either, it can run under a different user. Any advice on how to | get the port to add the user (and remove it properly when the port is | deinstalled) properly and securely would be appreciated as well.
The only port which comes to my mind which goes near to what you want to achieve is sysutils/bsdstats, which installs a script in periodic/monthly. If running daily is enough you may want to look at that. Another option would be to create a support script/daemon and place it in rc.d. The script/daemon would then sit idle and wake up once every <your preferred time here> and gather your statistics. Third option: instruct the user (via a message at post-install stage) on how to setup the cron job. | | Bonus points for providing the lines that would need to go into a | CONTENTS file for the package, because that's what I'm working with | right now for testing it on multiple machines. | | Thanks! - -- Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEAREKAAYFAkhYQokACgkQwMJqmJVx945RwgCgqXsRvtIs4zUqp3zxo2Z7g25n R3EAn2ZqcCxPsYwHnrNNq363bPQIK//o =I8a4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
