From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 29 11:11:53 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 C43C516A403 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:11:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF6643D4C for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:11:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n29so983128nfc for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:11:52 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=kWiOzqyVhHMGsazVYDos/CcADRtadY4qxB5Wn8ntKAUMioVKpDdaIRc2reFx+G/4iTb2mbIlvukGLwApojbI6J3fFTRIIo/5dZXNCzTXa4ppW67LFVJH8GHXUKGiIgyW6iCMMETYfkC1XlOtD6FPwJAUIip7XZvge0WZj/8uV34= Received: by 10.78.97.7 with SMTP id u7mr2349997hub; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:11:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.168.7 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:11:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <70e8236f0609290411x2927f852m7f649f22c596119@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:11:51 +0100 From: "Joao Barros" To: "Marc G. Fournier" In-Reply-To: <20060928232533.Y51847@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060928232533.Y51847@ganymede.hub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDStats v4.0: Attempt to address some major issues ... 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: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:11:53 -0000 On 9/29/06, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > As painful as it was to do, I backed up the old data tonight and wiped out > the stats ... for one major reason: the stats lost their accuracy. > > As I said, you just need to download the new version and run it, you don't > have to wait for the port to go through, assuming you have already > installed from the port and /etc/periodic.conf is setup ... > > Make sure you run it right after downloading though ... > > If anyone out there can see a flaw in the script ... or something that I > may have overlooked as far as a 'loophole' that could be used to screw > around with the data, please let me know ... I know its not possible, > minus registration, to get rid of all holes, but, hopefully I've now > gotten rid of the ones that a truck could (and did) drive though ... > I just updated the script and it ran fine :) I'm the only guy yet from Portugal and the only sparc cpu :D On another subject, with the addition of the other BSDs the releases stats for example are pretty much nonsense. Do you plan to work on that? -- Joao Barros