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- From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: A Server's Right to live (numbers and figures).
- Date: 22 Dec 92 03:54:20 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
- Lines: 54
- Message-ID: <avalon.724996460@coombs>
- References: <avalon.724924814@coombs> <1992Dec21.120107.12707@alf.uib.no>
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- buboo@alf.uib.no (Ove Ruben R Olsen) writes:
-
- >[A Sidenote: A server's right to live or not does not only depends on
- > if it has users or not. I see no problem in having several
- > servers under a domain (in the widest sense) as long as only
- > ONE server are connecting to the outside world. What is going
- > on inside a domain is entierly the domain's business.
- > This is also why the EBIC works.]
-
- >Darren Reed writes:
-
- >[... some good points deleted ...]
-
- >>say no to servers with less than 10 regular users
-
- [...]
- >A better measurement is finding out how much a server has served in TIME.
-
- >This measurement should be done over a 30 day period. If it show up that
- >a server has server less than 30 days (1 day is 24 hours, not 12 hours),
- >one should question if the server has a right to live.
- >Of course one has to eliminate any "StupidoBoto".
-
- >Example:
-
- >Log started: Tue Dec 1 03:41:41 1992
- >Log ended: Mon Dec 21 09:45:58 1992
-
- >TOTAL INFORMATION
- >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Total served time: 66 ds + 19:55:28
- >Number of sessions: 1949
- >Number of different domains: 15
- >Number of different users: 195
- >Number of different machines: 114
-
- >The figures are taken from alf.uib.no. With such figures you can calculate
- >whatever you want.
-
- >Requirements to get such figures and a lot of other stuff regarding
- >stats from the server:
- > - perl (4.019 an above.)
- > - Enable FNAME_USERLOG in the config.h (aprox line 254 in 272g.)
- > - ircstat (found on nic.funet.fi:pub/unix/ircstat.tar.Z.)
- > - Fiddle with the IDF file, but this is not nececary (SP??.)
-
- Who would run the script and then admit their server is not needed ?
-
- It needs to be able to be done remotely somewhow...
-
- avalon
-
- Say no to lame IrcII scripts.
-
-