From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 2 00:08:39 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 1E79716A40F; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 00:08:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A33E543D45; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 00:08:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C1383A4656; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 21:08:31 -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 56837-08; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 21:07:22 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-137-86-60.eastlink.ca [24.137.86.60]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 568443A4654; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 21:07:15 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B8F23BE08; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 21:07:26 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:07:26 -0300 From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, misc@openbsd.org, advocacy@openbsd.org, users@lists.ddragonflybsd.org, current-users@netbsd.org, netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org Message-ID: <920ED4C6D0C324A5F14B0875@ganymede.hub.org> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:11:48 +0000 Cc: Subject: BSDStats 4.0 - You need to upgrade ... 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: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:08:39 -0000 Apologies for the multi-list post, but I've been receiving several requests from varous *BSD users about this, so figured I'd hit everyone in one fell swoop ... First, for those that aren't aware, back in August, after some lengthy discussions on the FreeBSD mailing lists, I built a script that is meant to provide a means of building up usage metrics for the *BSD operating systems ... something that refreshes itself mountly (ie. periodic monthly script in FreeBSD) so that it isn't "who installed *BSD", but "who is currently running *BSD" ... The results of this work can be seen at http://www.bsdstats.org This is not a "FreeBSD is better then ..." sort of thing, although some wish to see it that way ... the point is to get an idea of how many are running *BSDs to show vendors (both software and hardware) that we aren't just a bunch of hobbiest, but are viable market that they should be addressing. Since we started this, we've hit two hurdles that had to be addressed by upgrading the script in such a way that makes the older ones unable to be used for reporting ... If you are running the script, please make sure that you are running the *newest* version, which is available at: http://www.bsdstats.org/downloads/300.statistics For those paranoid about running stuff like this ... its a shell script, and there is nothing 'hidden' or 'covert' about it ... it sends in what operating system, what version and what architecture you are running ... we do not store your IP or hostname in the database, everything is key'd off a key you send in on first connection, and a token we send back ... after that first run, unless you remove the token file from your server, it will repeatedly use the same key/token pair ... And, the script is meant to be run monthly ... we are looking for long term usage numbers, not a 'point in time' sort of thing ... So, if you haven't downloaded and upgraded to the newest version, please do and run the script when finished to get your host into the system. If you have any questions, please email me directly ...