Re: bsdstats.org

[Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>]

At 9:06 PM +0200 9/11/06, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > > I'm content with the post-install "Would you like to submit your
> > > information" question.  I don't know why on Earth this script has
> > > to be put in periodic though.  What am I missing?
> > The idea is to track how many machines are actively running *BSD.
> > If all we know is that you installed *BSD last month, then we have
> > no idea if you're still running it this month.
>
> actually, these numbers won't be accurate.  Just take a office
> machine running *bsd:  periodic won't run if the box is shut down
> every evening.  i think there is a need for some sophistication.

I'm sure we'll find many good ideas which need to be included in
the stats script, as we get more experience with it.  I expect that
Marc will be busy writing updates for many months to come...  :-)

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