From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 29 04:55:16 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 05F7416A4E7 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:55:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xj2106@columbia.edu) Received: from jalapeno.cc.columbia.edu (jalapeno.cc.columbia.edu [128.59.29.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6053743D60 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:55:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xj2106@columbia.edu) Received: from photon.homelinux.org (dyn-carl-201-40.dyn.columbia.edu [160.39.201.40]) (user=xj2106 mech=PLAIN bits=0) by jalapeno.cc.columbia.edu (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6T4t9pW003434 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:55:14 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> From: Xiao-Yong Jin Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:55:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Nikolas Britton's message of "Fri, 28 Jul 2006 23:39:05 -0500") Message-ID: <87slklj9hu.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-No-Spam-Score: Local X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 128.59.29.5 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: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:55:16 -0000 "Nikolas Britton" writes: > On 7/28/06, Atom Powers wrote: >> On 7/28/06, User Freebsd 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