BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

[Gerard Seibert]

On Thursday 14 September 2006 13:29, Andy Greenwood wrote:

> What about making it a sysinstall option? Not in the base install, but
> the option is presented when setting up a new box.
>
> On 9/14/06, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:53:04PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > > On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:09, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > > One should not conclude anything until the numbers are much larger
> > > > than they are now, because small fluctuations from e.g. regional
> > > > promotion of bsdstats in one country but not another, or one large
> > > > company deploying it on all machine, will dramatically change your
> > > > "conclusions".
> > >
> > > I was just wondering if there is any consensus on adding BSDStats to
> > > the base system? If would appear to be a logical step to take so as
> > > to insure that all users of FBSD would be counted. An end user could
> > > always disable the sending of data by disabling it in the
> > > /etc/rc.file. I feel that unless it is part of the base system and
> > > turned on by default, too many users will never take part in the
> > > reporting process.
> >
> > I highly doubt that it would be enabled by default in FreeBSD, since
> > many of our users (or their employers) would consider it a privacy
> > breach to have their systems reporting back automatically.

That is sort of what I meant. Have it installed as part of the base system 
in much the same manner as portsnap is. The required entry would be placed 
in the /etc/rc.conf file but commented out or set to 'NO', which ever 
method is felt to be better. Perhaps the initial MOTD might reference it 
and point to where more info regarding it might be found.

Just a suggestion and please don't top post. It makes it hard to follow a 
thread.

-- 
Gerard

A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read test.
Q: Why is top posting such a bad idea?
A: Top posting.
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