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[User Freebsd]

I just threw up a couple of very simple tables, showing # of systems 
reporting in this month, as well as a break down of release / architecture 
for those that have reported in ...


On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, Garrett Cooper wrote:

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> User Freebsd wrote:
>>
>> John pointed out a bug that I hadn't noticed, mainly because I was
>> testing single host ... basically, I installed PHP5 on the backend, and
>> stupidly didn't check to make sure that they *hadn't* gone and changed
>> all of the DB access functions from 4.x :(
>>
>> The bug is fixed, and I've tested using three different servers to make
>> sure its being updated properly ...
>>
>> For those that have submitted already once, please re-submit, since your
>> data was added the first time through ...
>>
>> And, there is now a port "/usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats" that will
>> install it in /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly, thanks to John there too
>> ... no changes to the script itself have been made yet, just a fix on
>> the backend ...
>>
>> Will work on adding pciconf support in next ...
>>
>> On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, User Freebsd wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, John Nielsen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here is a sample (working) port. Un-tar the archive under
>>>> ports/sysutils. It installs the script to
>>>> ${LOCALBASE}/etc/periodic/monthly and prints a message about how to
>>>> enable it. Have a look at it, edit all the text entries to make them
>>>> your own (in particular I didn't do a real pkg-descr), and submit it
>>>> as a PR (I can assist you with that off-list if you'd like).
>>>
>>> Perfect, thanks ... I have commit access to ports, so I can commit it
>>> later over the weekend ...
>>>
>>>> Feature request: the script should output one line of text indicating
>>>> success or failure (and to remind people who read their periodic
>>>> e-mails that it's actually running).
>>>
>>> I am personally terrible at 'human friendly features', especially when
>>> it comes to text ... its why most web pages I design seem
>>> ultra-utilitarian unless I talk someone into writing things nicely ...
>>>
>>> IMHO, this whole thing isn't meant for my edification, but to provide
>>> *us*, as a project, with some overall numbers to advocate/market
>>> ourselves better ... *please* feel free to submit any patches to the
>>> script that you (or anyone else) feels needs to be added to improve
>>> things ...
>>>
>>> The more ppl involved, the more successful the endeavor will be ...
>>>
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>>> Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services
>>> (http://www.hub.org)
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>> Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
>> Email . scrappy at hub.org                              MSN . scrappy at hub.org
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>
> 	I know I may be overachieving a bit in my overall thoughts of this
> plan, but why not do something similar for the rest of the BSDs and/or
> Linux/Solaris? I find this a good statistical tool for determining how
> many desktops run what form of Unix, so better numbers could be derived
> for overall Unix driver support.
> 	Just a thought..
> - -Garrett
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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email . scrappy at hub.org                              MSN . scrappy at hub.org
Yahoo . yscrappy               Skype: hub.org        ICQ . 7615664