Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:55:09 -0400 From: Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? Message-ID: <87slklj9hu.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0607282139i51fdde5ch58525fa3347364d2@mail.gmail.com> (Nikolas Britton's message of "Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:39:05 -0500") References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <df9ac37c0607281319s5da0f64ese5fa57df1ef11a4d@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0607282139i51fdde5ch58525fa3347364d2@mail.gmail.com>
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"Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> writes: > On 7/28/06, Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 7/28/06, User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> 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 ... >> > People like me who only use FreeBSD on the laptop would certainly give much shorter uptimes. Okay, I just wanna say, it's very strange to a mobile/desktop user. >> >> 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. >> > > What about sending something as simple as uname -mr? > >> uname -mr > 6.1-STABLE i386 That's it. > > The only way this idea will work is if we put some code in the base > system that sends something generic every few months. for example. > Send 'uname -mr' to stats.freebsd.org every 3 months. It would be very > easy to 'opt out', perhaps stats_enable="NO" in rc.conf. > > Alternatively we could make it 'opt in' at install time. The installer > could add stats_enable="YES" to rc.conf when someone answers yes. > > The actual code to implement this is trivial, something like a few > lines of shell script and a config file that lists the next send date. > This config file can be checked during the monthly periodic and if > needed trigger the stats script to send the anonymous data and update > the next send date in the config file. If the stats script can't find > a path out it should update the next send date and then die. We can also collect the access information of the cvsup server and portsnap server, can't we? > > > > -- > BSD Podcasts @: > http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ > http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- Xiao-Yong
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