Re: KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor

[Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 05:33:38PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Just follow the LSB specification and about the only thing thats totally
> out of field is Slackware.

Fair enough, though one line like '(sleep 60; twistd ...) & in
/etc/init.d/boot.local would have been a bit simpler for a quick and
dirty autoinstall .sh script (that's the simplest way I install it in my system).

> Right thats my first reaction, 6Mbytes of unauditable weirdness versus a

;)

> tiny C program or a shell script using netcat.
> 
> echo "Reporting boot: "
> (echo "BOOT:"$(cat /etc/lum-serial)":"$(uname -a)"::") | nc -u -w 10
> testhost.example.com 7658

Client completely stateless couldn't get right suspend to disk as far as
I can tell.

Tiny C program will be less tiny than the current tac file and the
package would immediately become arch dependent. Plus if you want to run
it as user nobody the twistd -u/g --pidfile --logfile and all the rest
in twisted make life so much easier. On my systems I've other services
running in background with twistd so perhaps I'm biased because I share
almost all of it ;).

> For one distro perhaps. Using a proper init service script makes it work
> for pretty much everyone. 

I'm not very optimistic about the depdency chain to be distro
indipendent, but I will look into that shortly and I guess here I'm
running a bit offtopic.

Thanks!