Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:09:43 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> To: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Cc: Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? Message-ID: <20060729020734.P27679@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0607282139i51fdde5ch58525fa3347364d2@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <df9ac37c0607281319s5da0f64ese5fa57df1ef11a4d@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0607282139i51fdde5ch58525fa3347364d2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: >> 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? 'k ... >> uname -mr > 6.1-STABLE i386 > > 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. Why not just have it as part of the monthly_periodic itself ... have it send a copy to a central address as well as to the admin itself, with the message containing a note on how to disable it in /etc/rc.conf, and have it opt_in by default? ---- 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
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