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[Garance A Drosihn]

At 9:06 PM +0200 9/11/06, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
Garance A Drosihn wrote:
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?
The idea is to track how many machines are actively running *BSD.
If all we know is that you installed *BSD last month, then we have
no idea if you're still running it this month.
actually, these numbers won't be accurate.  Just take a office
machine running *bsd:  periodic won't run if the box is shut down
every evening.  i think there is a need for some sophistication.
I'm sure we'll find many good ideas which need to be included in
the stats script, as we get more experience with it.  I expect that
Marc will be busy writing updates for many months to come...  :-)
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