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

[User Freebsd]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Colin Percival wrote:

> User Freebsd wrote:
>> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Colin Percival wrote:
>>> Approximately 15000 portsnap snapshots (i.e., /var/db/portsnap or
>>> /usr/local/portsnap directories) are being kept updated on systems
>>> which send HTTP requests to portsnap*.freebsd.org.  Of these, about
>>> 4300 are running FreeBSD 6.0, 4500 are running FreeBSD 6.1, 2400
>>> are running FreeBSD 6-STABLE, 300 are running FreeBSD 5.5, and the
>>> remaining 3500 are using copies of portsnap installed from the ports
>>> tree (presumably on earlier FreeBSD releases, since the portsnap
>>> port won't install if portsnap is already part of the FreeBSD base
>>> system).
>>
>> 'k, *this* sounds like it might be perfect ... would it be possible to
>> get a copy of the portsnap logs to see about setting up some sort of
>> auto-parse?  Maybe setup some statistics and graphs?
>
> You mean something like http://www.daemonology.net/portsnap/stats.html ?

Not really ... more interested in a simpler graph / #s that denote # of 
distinct hosts for each version of FreeBSD each month ... depending on the 
amount of data you can pull out of the logs, getting #s per country, and 
#s per top level domain (ie. yahoo.com) would be cool too ...

Also:

   "gathering the access logs for portsnap.daemonology.net,
    portsnap1.freebsd.org, and portsnap2.freebsd.org"

Are those the *only* portsnap servers, or are there more?  Again, the idea 
is to get a complete, and as accurate as possible, picture ...

> 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.

Actually, I'm ashamed to say that I'm still using CVSup also ... going to 
work on getting myself switched over too ...


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