BSDStats - What is involved ... ?

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:48:58 +1000, Antony Mawer <fbsd-arch at mawer.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Not to mention it reduces the barrier to entry. It's a lot easier to
>> drop 2 lines in your periodic.conf and be done than to require someone
>> to update their ports tree, install the port, and then add the two lines.
>
> That would be even easier if the dropping of 2 lines was carried out
> automatically.  I know people lazy enough to deinstall a port if they must
> do any post-config for themselves ("make deinstall" is easier than thinking
> for a few seconds).

There are several things I want to work on when I get back onto a 'real 
network' next week ... Matt @ Dragonfly has asked for some 'network 
detection' code to be added, to check if there is even a network 
connected, before he'll add it to there base system ... and someone else 
suggested adding code similar to postfix's port to have *it* prompt and 
auto-add the appropriate lines to /etc/periodic.conf ...

Plus, of course, next phase being to try and get a simple email system in 
place as described by Max for those 'hard to reach places' ...

But, again, those are all extensions to, and don't affect the backend ... 
the changes discussed as needing to be worked on will not cause problems 
for v3.x or newer clients ...