On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
Colin Percival wrote:
There are still a lot of people (particularly on pre-6.0 systems) who
are using CVSup rather than portsnap for updating their ports trees.
Also, I would guess that some people who run multiple FreeBSD systems,
use some sort of local propagation of either the entire ports tree, or
locally compiled packages.
I work as a sysadmin at the students computer lab at the mathematics
department at the Norwegian university of science and technology, and we
take this approach. Not that the maths department is a large one, but we
have fifty-some workstations and a couple of servers running FreeBSD.
Only one or two of which would show up in the portsnap stats.
Ya, that is the part that throws the #s out completely ... its those
'ghost machines' that would be nice to see counted somehow ...
How about something as innoculous as:
fetch http://statsserver.domain/aliveping.php?version=`uname
-mr`&hostname=`hostname`
run as part of periodic daily ... ? uname -mr would have to be properly
formatted for a URL, but that would give a distinct IP / hostname for
indexing, and OS version, take neglible bandwidth to run, and, I believe,
doesn't give out any *sensitive* information ...
Then have a daily_statistics_enable="YES" in /etc/defaults/perodic.conf,
so that ppl can opt out of it ...
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