From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 29 01:26:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D49116A4DD for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 01:26:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3945B43D4C for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 01:26:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B55DC291B19; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:25:52 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08734-04; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:25:57 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FD74290C46; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:25:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 5084F5C44C; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:25:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FA93498E1; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:25:25 -0300 (ADT) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:25:25 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd To: Atom Powers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060728222430.V27679@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 01:26:13 -0000 On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Atom Powers wrote: > On 7/28/06, User Freebsd wrote: >> >> Towards that end, as a starter, I would like to encourage everyone out >> there running 1 or more FreeBSD boxes to go to >> >> http://www.mreriksson.net/uptimes >> >> register all of your hosts, and install /usr/ports/sysutils/uptimec and >> get it running ... >> > > Heh. You won't get more than a tiny percentage of hosts that way; I > believe most of us, even those on this list (which is nowhere close to > the total user base), don't care to be listed. > > My shop runs 30+ FreeBSD hosts, and I have several more for personal > use. But of those there are maybe 2-3 that I would be ok with listing > and exactly zero that I will actually list. It's not that I don't want > to help, but I'm not going to run a process like that on a production > server. It is definitely your perogative, but I'm curious as to why not? You have the source code for the client, so its not some sort of 'spyware' that is sitting running on your machine ... I could see if it was some closed-source client ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664