On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 13:29, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>
> On 2019/09/30 12:39, Ville Valkonen wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 02:29, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 2019/09/29 16:26, Ville Valkonen wrote:
> > > > Week+ ping? Cc'ing Stuart as he's the maintainer of nfdump port.
> > >
> > > Yes you should definitely cc the maintainer - but no diff,
> > > and the inline parts in the quoted mail are not usable directly (missing
> > > headers, hardcoded paths that should come from variables)..
> >
> > Hello Stuart,
> >
> > please see the original email below.
>
> Yes I saw that, but they're not usable directly, the proposed README is
> not in the same format that every other pkg-readme in the tree uses, the
> proposed README and rc script have hardcoded paths that should come from
> variables, and it's not in the form of a diff so it would need to be hand
> applied which is a pain.
Fair enough. I'll cook the patch once I got some time. Thanks for the pointers.
> > I came to realize that custom flags will omit the default flags. Not
> > sure if that's the problem but we could use the similar approach that
> > unbound has where user flags are concatenated to the default flags.
> >
> > <snip>
> > Hello,
> >
> > please CC me as I'm not subscribed in to the ports mailing list.
> >
> > Here's [1] an rc script for nfcapd daemon which is part of the nfdump
> > package.
> >
> > And while here, document nfexpire in some level in README [2].
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> >
> > [1]
> > <snip>
> > #!/bin/ksh
> >
> > daemon="/usr/local/bin/nfcapd -D"
> > daemon_user="_nfcapd"
> > daemon_flags="-l /var/cache/nfcapd -P /var/run/nfcapd/nfcapd.pid"
> >
> > rc_reload=NO
> >
> > . /etc/rc.d/rc.subr
> >
> > rc_pre() {
> > /usr/bin/install -d -o ${daemon_user} /var/run/nfcapd
> > }
> >
> > rc_cmd $1
> > </snip>
> >
> > [2]
> > It should be noted that nfcapd can fill disk rather quickly in vibrant
> > network
> > environments. Therefore it's important to flush the flow stats every now and
> > then. One could use the following root's crontab entry to expire flows older
> > than 31 days:
> > @daily /usr/local/bin/nfexpire -t 31d /var/cache/nfcapd >/dev/null
> > 2>&1
> >
> > --
> > Kind regards,
> > Ville Valkonen
> > </snip>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ville
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Ville
