[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] pkgstats 2.1-1

[Flavio Costa]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be>wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:32:50 +0200
> Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:22:03 +0200, Dieter Plaetinck
>
> > > You can setuid the file and give it a specific owner, it will be
> > > run as that user.  If that's what you're asking.
> >
> > Yes, thought about that too. But: nobody shouldn't own any files;
> > especially executables. And: afaik you cannot suid a shell-script. The
> > script is not run, but the interpreter which then runs the script.
>
> ah, right.  is there a specific reason why nobody shouldn't own any
> files?
>
>
> > > Also, make sure we don't ddos ourselves.
> >
> > Well, collecting the data is not that expensive. But there is still
> > some room to make it even cheaper if needed. But afaik weekly crons
> > are not executed at the same milisecond and there are also different
> > time zones and not every clock is in sync.
> >
>
> sure, just thought i would mention.  At my previous company an
> iphone-app developer built an app which automatically polled our
> servers every x minutes, and we got a self-inflicted ddos when it went
> live :)
>
> Dieter
>

Couldn't we just submit these kind of statistics to somewhere "in the
cloud". Google App Engine for example.

-- 
Flávio Coutinho da Costa