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Adrian Michael Nida
nida at musc.edu
Mon Sep 11 10:23:00 PDT 2006
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> FreeBSD once had an "installation counter" many years ago
> (it's long dead and gone), which worked exactly like that,
> i.e. after finishing the actual installation, sysinstall
> asked whether it should be reported. If you said "yes", an
> e-mail was sent to some pseudo account.
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> This is the only one currently in existence that I'm aware of.
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IIRC, OpenBSD still has their dmesg at xxxxxxxxxxx mail account to collect
hardware information. NYCBUG also has something similar:
http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=dmesgd;SQLIMIT=20
I'm content with the post-install "Would you like to submit your
information" question. I don't know why on Earth this script has to be
put in periodic though. What am I missing?
Adrian
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