Addition to BSDstats

[Marc G. Fournier]

I was just thinking about it, and one point that I don't know if I've ever 
made (or haven't made in awhile) is that BSDStats looks at who is *using* 
a *BSD variant, not who *was* ... it relies on being run *at least* once a 
month for a server to be counted ... if you run it once and never run it 
again, you only count for that *period*, but fall off the radar relatively 
quickly.

Basically, if someone installed FreeBSD 2 years ago, installed the port 
and then switched to Linux a year later, even though they are still listed 
in the system, they are not part of the 'current' states, as they are no 
longer reporting ...

That is why the initial install puts it into 
/usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly, so that it hopefully gets run *at least* 
at the beginning of each month ... it can be run more often over the 
month, it will still count as *1* install, but it needs to be run *at 
least* once a month for a machine to continue to be counted ...


On Fri, 7 May 2010, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>
> Maybe some sort of 'Server Running *BSD' icon / link from web sites to 
> bsdstats.org would help too ...
>
> On Fri, 7 May 2010, Chip Camden wrote:
>
>> I like that idea.
>> 
>> On May 07 2010 09:37, Fbsd1 wrote:
>>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 6 May 2010, Robert Huff wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> The problem with not including bsdstats in sysinstall or some
>>>>>> other means of bringing it to peoples attention is that it gets
>>>>>> forgotten and loses its effectiveness. Maybe it could go in the
>>>>>>  monthly subscription list reminder.
>>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I think everyone agrees that bsdstats needs more visibility right from
>>> the virgin install. Since its not appropriate to include bsdstats in the
>>> sysinstall program. How about getting the RELEASE team to change the
>>> content of the default logon message of the day /etc/motd, to advocacy
>>> installing the bsdstats package. What do you think about this idea?
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