From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 30 23:24:08 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 7E92D16A4E0 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:24:08 +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 162CE43D4C for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:24:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5BD5291B30 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:23:55 -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 93237-07 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:24:05 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE5D290C38 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:23:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id EAB605C61A; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:30:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 15B4E4A8B1; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:13:50 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1473B4A526; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:13:50 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:13:50 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd To: Nikolas Britton In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060729021246.T27679@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Atom Powers , 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: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:24:08 -0000 On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > 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. Btw, you'd need to include something else in the mix to differentiate various hosts ... maybe MAC address or something like that? ---- 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