Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:28:56 -0300 From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> To: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "BSDstats: Minor Update to Port ..." Message-ID: <829634C6648908CFD209AB4A@ganymede.hub.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Monday, April 30, 2007 18:50:42 +0300 Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > >> I've just made a slight change to the port so that it adds a bsdstats.sh >> script to /usr/local/etc/rc.d that can be enabled in /etc/rc.conf so that >> it runs on system reboot ... > > So, do I understand it right that there is no harm in running the script > several times a month (i.e. it doesn't increase the stats every time it's > run)? So far I've been running the script manually at the beginning of each > month on my home PC and been a bit nervous that I maybe spoil the stats > accidentally... The only 'risks' are those running it on a LiveCD, since it can't save the key values ... but, on a desktop / server / laptop, it saves a file in /var/db/bsdstats that contains two values unique to your machine that are used in reporting, so that if you submit once a day, it will only show up as one entry ... The big change with my recent commit is that that whole 'first of month' doesn't really apply anymore, but, based on talking to several ppl, we suspect that we've been losing a fair number of reporters that have installed it, but their machines aren't actually turned on at 5am on the 1st of each month :( - ---- 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGNhlI4QvfyHIvDvMRAjuZAKDZJptMJc9bVApP8QhPUxp1qzfb5ACfWurm sfF244RM1oT5TdWoTwetmAc= =7eIx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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