Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

[User Freebsd]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Atom Powers wrote:

> On 7/28/06, User Freebsd <freebsd at hub.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Towards that end, as a starter, I would like to encourage everyone out
>> there running 1 or more FreeBSD boxes to go to
>>
>>            http://www.mreriksson.net/uptimes
>> 
>> register all of your hosts, and install /usr/ports/sysutils/uptimec and
>> get it running ...
>> 
>
> Heh. You won't get more than a tiny percentage of hosts that way; I
> believe most of us, even those on this list (which is nowhere close to
> the total user base), don't care to be listed.
>
> 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.

It is definitely your perogative, but I'm curious as to why not?  You have 
the source code for the client, so its not some sort of 'spyware' that is 
sitting running on your machine ...

I could see if it was some closed-source client ...

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