Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] build-gnuradio statistics

[Marcus D. Leech]

On 05/28/2013 12:44 PM, Martin Lülf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would solve this with a small PHP Script on the webserver (or 
> whatever scripting language is available on the webserver). The script 
> can evaluate the called URL including parameters.
>
> So in the build gnuradio script you would call something like this
> wget http://example.com/script.php?param1=5&param2=pi

> The Script on the webserver will now have access to param1 and param2 
> and can store them in a Database, or whatever you would like to do and 
> can return (echo) a few charakters (e.g. 1 ok, 0 malformed parameter).
Yes, I was thinking something through wget as well...

> This way the build gnuradio script can then evaluate the content of 
> the downloaded file to see if anything went wrong.
>
> For this to work you only need HTTP access to the script webserver on 
> the install PC. Many PCs are behind Firewalls that drop traffic on 
> Port 25 if you try to use Email, but port 80 is almost always oppen.
>
> I also agree with Jonathan, that sending back feedback should be a 
> opt-in decision during the installation.
>
> Yours
> Martin
I'll have to think about this.  I don't want to add even more work to my 
workload, but I would like to understand what fraction of build-gnuradio
  invocations are failing, and why.




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Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
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