Addition to BSDstats

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Wed, 5 May 2010, Randi Harper wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Wed, 5 May 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
>> 
>>> I seem to have probs with mine too. I was under the impression that 
>>> bsdstats was installed by default (in the base system?)
>> 
>> There has been talk about adding it as an option to sysinstall, but, 
>> unfortunately, I don't have enough knowledge of sysinstall to add it, and 
>> nobody else has step'd forward that does ... the idea wasn't to 
>> auto-install/enable, but to make it more visible while you are installing 
>> ...
>> 
>> Anyone out there able to do this ... ?
>
> I have not heard any talk about this up until this email.

Its been brought up a few times over the past couple of years ...

> I wouldn't want to add an option to sysinstall for this unless bsdstats 
> was part of base.

Since it is just a script that was designed specifically so that it 
doesn't require any other ports to be installed, *in theory* it could just 
be dump'd into /etc/periodic/monthly without any issues ...

But, if it were ... unlike PC-BSD, it would have to be opt-in, not opt-out 
... based on all of the discussions in the past, and I agree, nobody would 
appreciate (and outcry would be heavy) if someone were to add an 'opt-out 
phone home script' that they didn't consciously enable ...


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