From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 04:46:07 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B21D106566B for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 04:46:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED9428FC1A for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 04:46:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB623455A35; Thu, 6 May 2010 01:46:06 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 37423-06; Thu, 6 May 2010 04:46:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id E76D63455A0D; Thu, 6 May 2010 01:46:05 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E700834559F7; Thu, 6 May 2010 01:46:05 -0300 (ADT) Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 01:46:05 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Randi Harper In-Reply-To: <4BE22F91.9000304@freebsd.org> Message-ID: References: <4BE03042.5010806@ipv6canada.com> <4BE0A341.1010207@a1poweruser.com> <4BE0E8B1.3000802@a1poweruser.com> <4BE1E3FA.4010602@onetel.com> <4BE22F91.9000304@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" , Chris Whitehouse Subject: Re: Addition to BSDstats 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: Thu, 06 May 2010 04:46:07 -0000 On Wed, 5 May 2010, Randi Harper wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> On Wed, 5 May 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: >> >>> I seem to have probs with mine too. I was under the impression that >>> bsdstats was installed by default (in the base system?) >> >> There has been talk about adding it as an option to sysinstall, but, >> unfortunately, I don't have enough knowledge of sysinstall to add it, and >> nobody else has step'd forward that does ... the idea wasn't to >> auto-install/enable, but to make it more visible while you are installing >> ... >> >> Anyone out there able to do this ... ? > > I have not heard any talk about this up until this email. Its been brought up a few times over the past couple of years ... > I wouldn't want to add an option to sysinstall for this unless bsdstats > was part of base. Since it is just a script that was designed specifically so that it doesn't require any other ports to be installed, *in theory* it could just be dump'd into /etc/periodic/monthly without any issues ... But, if it were ... unlike PC-BSD, it would have to be opt-in, not opt-out ... based on all of the discussions in the past, and I agree, nobody would appreciate (and outcry would be heavy) if someone were to add an 'opt-out phone home script' that they didn't consciously enable ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. scrappy@hub.org http://www.hub.org Yahoo:yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ:7615664 MSN:scrappy@hub.org