Blastwave woes
Blastwave is a project which builds Solaris comaptible pkgs out of GNU
software for Solaris 8 - 11. I wasn't that sure about project
structures, security and so on when I installed their packages. I looked
for a better project and found NetBSD pkgsrc that time. We run NetBSD
pkgsrc on Solaris 8/Solaris 9 and Linux at my company and we are quite
happy with it - there is no need for such projects as blastwave. Hoever,
there is something interesting - when a single person has founded a
project and is in power of everything, this project is likely about to
explode one day. Do you remember fink? The package manager for MacOS X?
For every of my readers, I suggest to switch to NetBSD pkgsrc, for your
freedom and your security and software needs. Maybe I should set up a
small article how to get started on Solaris.
Links about the blastwave troubles
written by: Ulrich Habel (rhaen)
Source for the accumulator script
Some of you already asked for it, get the sources for the accu data
collecting script here on this page. If you are just want to use it or
if you would like to have a short look into the sourcecode, feel free to
download it here.
Download
accu-statistics
It only requires the installation of the rrdtool which is located at
databases/rrdtool inside pkgsrc. The script has a damon mode, which is
handy for once starting, never care about. You can use it in your
crontab, too. Just make sure to run perldoc accu once you
unpackaged the sources. The png image is just a sample image of a
graph. Enjoy it!
written by: Ulrich Habel (rhaen)