Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:05:56 +0100 (WEST) From: Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos <miguel@anjos.strangled.net> To: scrappy@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDstats Statistics for Sept, 2007 ... 12 769 Hosts Reported In Message-ID: <200710051205.l95C5u3r002502@satan.anjos.strangled.net> In-Reply-To: <FC939F6458B279E947BD7B52@ganymede.hub.org>
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> From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org> [...] > Percentage Change in September from August: > > Overall +12.8% [...] > FreeBSD - 7.4% (5008 hosts) Numbers have gone down as to what FreeBSD is concerned. I think it's because the bsdstats script is becoming a bit of a pain... - The script keeps being changed and updated... - The script now wants to run on startup, which is a pain. Why? What was wrong with monthly reports? Why the haste? In my case it runs before an HTTP proxy is up and running... I had to disable it. Why on earth enabled by default? That's not what most ports do... The FreeBSD user is usually expected to manually enable the port after installing it. - Only now I realised that it is still reporting monthly... Otherwise it would have been deactivated for my machine. While a lot of us understands the interest of this, and even takes the time to take a look at how it's done, we also don't have the time to keep peting it every time it changes behaviour. The first reaction might be uninstall the port. Also, I think the enabled by default thing is a very bad idea. Consider when you're deploying a BSD in an enterprise environment; not everybody might understand imediatly that it would be beneficial to have that thing reporting automatically and by default... Greetings, Miguel
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