commit 57bb046b54b49faeb40e1e10d06fa18446c811db Author: Karsten Loesing karsten.loesing@gmx.net Date: Mon Mar 12 09:07:53 2012 +0100

Update HOWTO based on comments by ln5 et al. --- measurements-HOWTO | 9 ++++++--- truncate-data.py | 2 +- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/measurements-HOWTO b/measurements-HOWTO index 2cefb68..30c0206 100644 --- a/measurements-HOWTO +++ b/measurements-HOWTO @@ -128,17 +128,20 @@ $ crontab -e

*/5 * * * * timeout -s2 295 ~/torperf/trivsocks-client torperf.torproject.org 127.0.0.1:9020 /.50kbfile >> ~/torperf/50kb.data - 2>/dev/null; ~/torperf/truncate-data.py ~/torperf/50kb.data + 2>/dev/null; python ~/torperf/truncate-data.py ~/torperf/50kb.data 2,32 * * * * timeout -s2 1795 ~/torperf/trivsocks-client torperf.torproject.org 127.0.0.1:9021 /.1mbfile >> ~/torperf/1mb.data - 2>/dev/null; ~/torperf/truncate-data.py ~/torperf/1mb.data + 2>/dev/null; python ~/torperf/truncate-data.py ~/torperf/1mb.data 8 * * * * timeout -s2 3595 ~/torperf/trivsocks-client torperf.torproject.org 127.0.0.1:9022 /.5mbfile >> ~/torperf/5mb.data - 2>/dev/null; ~/torperf/truncate-data.py ~/torperf/5mb.data + 2>/dev/null; python ~/torperf/truncate-data.py ~/torperf/5mb.data

(Omit the truncate-data.py command if you don't want .data files to be truncated once per week to contain only the last 4 days of data.)

+Note that Python 2.6 or higher is required for the truncate-data.py +script. + From now on, the three files 50kb.data, 1mb.data, and 5mb.data should accumulate lines like this (50kb.data shown here; line breaks are only for formatting purposes): diff --git a/truncate-data.py b/truncate-data.py index a70e3fc..7e72052 100755 --- a/truncate-data.py +++ b/truncate-data.py @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -#!/usr/bin/python +#!/usr/bin/env python import os import re import sys