From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 3 20:19:21 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 6AB0616A4E7 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 20:19:21 +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 7B87543DA9 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 20:18:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A1A291B0D; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:18:31 -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 63577-07; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:18:33 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F40C3291B0A; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:18:30 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 8D6215C191; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:18:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8724C344C2; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:18:35 -0300 (ADT) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:18:35 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd To: backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <20060803193502.12118.qmail@web81611.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20060803171635.E6529@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060803193502.12118.qmail@web81611.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Antony Mawer , Xiao-Yong Jin , 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: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:19:21 -0000 On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com wrote: > maybe it's just because I've been reading up on it but what about > outputting the information in XML??? Then you could tag the Vendor, > Name, basic info, number of users, etc. in a tagged form that could be > then stored in a Dbase of some kind by vendor, working in FreeBSD X.Y, > broken, etc. The XML should be easily outputted on the fly to XHTML so > it can be reviewed by devolopers and what not. Just my too cents... 'k, right now, we are trying to get the data from the remote clients to a central server ... if you are thinking of using XML for this (not against it, I just know nothing about it), can you provide an example of what you are thinking, and how we'd script this to use HTTP to connect to the remote server? The hard part of all of this is that it cannot require *anything* except for the base system, so no php, no perl ... just pure shell commands ... it cannot require an administrator to install anything above the script itself ... ---- 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