576616 – dev-libs/geoip - add a cron script to update the databases

Bug 576616 - dev-libs/geoip - add a cron script to update the databases

Summary: dev-libs/geoip - add a cron script to update the databases

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement
Assignee:	Gentoo Netmon project

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Reported:	2016-03-06 16:17 UTC by Toralf Förster
Modified:	2016-05-20 09:05 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2016-03-06 16:17:31 UTC

sth like :

# cat /etc/cron.daily/geoip
/usr/sbin/geoipupdate.sh -f 1>/dev/null 2>&1

Comment 1 Tomáš Mózes 2016-03-07 15:18:11 UTC

And what if you have hundreds of machines with GeoIP (NAT)? Maxmind will probably ban you.

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-03-08 11:56:08 UTC

IMHO this is too trivial to distribute an additional file for. Anyone running services that require periodic GeoIP database updates should be able to write such a script.

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-03-08 11:56:48 UTC

Also, a daily update will not do much most days.