bsdstats 5.5 sysutils =38

Monthly script for reporting anonymous statistics about your machine

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Port Added: 06 Aug 2006 04:34:41

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The purpose of this port is to attempt to produce reasonably accurate
statistics on FreeBSD deployment, to be used for both marketing, and 
advocacy purposes by the project.

The major problem that we are trying to address is vendors who do not
feel that FreeBSD presents enough of a market to bother supporting.

WWW: http://bsdstats.hub.org

CVSWeb : Sources : Main Web Site : Distfiles Availability : PortsMon

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To install the port: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdstats/ && make install clean
To add the package: pkg_add -r bsdstats

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Configuration Options

     No options to configure

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Master Sites:

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/

- Set HTTP Timeout to prevent blocking

PR:             ports/136124
Submitted by:   Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>
Feature safe:   yes

scrappy's bit has been taken for safekeeping, so return these ports to
the pool.

Hat:            portmgr

- Remove conditional checks for FreeBSD 5.x and older

. do not remove (shared) directories periodic, periodic/monthly  [1] [3]
  at deinstall;
. fix useless use of cat(1);  [2]
. hardcoded directory name isreplaced with the appropriate variable.  [2]

PR:             105206 [1],  119453 [2],  126632 [3]
Submitted by:   delphij [1], olli [2], bsam [3]
Approved by:    maintainer timeout

Set LOCALBASE if not already set

PR:             ports/114305
Submitted by:   Volker Werth <volker@vwsoft.com>

Remove a reference to hostname that was in the script, but was never
actually used anywhere ...

PR:             ports/106298
Submitted by:   Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com>

The point of bsdstats is to be as painless as possible, but also to be
run monthly ... change the behaviour such that when it is run with the
-nodelay option, it *only* reports the operating system, even if both
devices and ports reporting are also enabled ...

... this when, when run as part of the original port install, *or*
on system reboot if enabled in /etc/rc.conf, it is 'quick n painless',
and we get the critical number we are looking for ...

As per discussion on -advocacy, resurrect having the installer prompted
if they want to enable it in /etc/rc.conf, instead of making it automatic.

Put a message explaining that for desktop/laptop environments, enabling in
/etc/rc.conf is recommended ...

fix problem where, when you try and run on install, it gives error because
LOCALBASE isn't set ...

clean up some warnings from portlint -avz and fix it so that if already
installed, and enabled, it properly enables in /etc/rc.conf also

forgot to cvs add the start up file ...

slight change to better handle boottime reporting, as well as to document
it in the pkg-message

By popular request, I've added a bsdstats.sh script to etc/rc.d so that
it can be enabled to run on reboot (ie. for laptops, office computers, etc)
since not everyone runs a server 24/7 ...

I've added to pkg-install a yesno question as to whether it should be enabled
on reboot, seperate from the monthly periodic run ...

Only depend on netcat if we are running an older version of FreeBSD
that doesn't already include it ...

PR:             ports/106446
Submitted by:   KIMURA Yasuhiro <yasu@utahime.org>

start reporting 'none' devices ... it just pads the results, but there
is no harm in doing so ...

forgot to ready version

on FreeBSD 4x the port sysutils/bsdstats should depend on net/netcat

PR:             ports/106373
Submitted by:   George L. Yermulnik"<yz@yz.kiev.ua>

make bsdstats's install a bit more friendly

PR:             ports/106284
Submitted by:   Mikko Tyolajarvi<mbsd@pacbell.net>

v5.0 of the BSDstats script ...

This version brings in optional port reporting.

This version is backwards compatible with the older versions, so an
upgrade isn't required, except if you wish to enable port reporting

clean up pkg-install a bit to avoid generating an error when
/etc/periodic.conf doesn't exist ...

Submitted by:   Paul Dekkers <Paul.Dekkers@surfnet.nl>

Make pkg-install a bit smarter ... if the questions have already been
answered in /etc/periodic.conf, don't ask them again, just print
out the message ...

Better for unattended port upgrades ...

Fix the report server hostname ...

Fix PATH so that it includes /usr/local/bin, so that dig is found on
systems where its installed via ports

Log communications, by default, to /var/log/bsdstats, so that one
knows if things are successful ... now have it so that if any phase
FAILs, it exits and doesn't just go to the next, which most likely
won't work either ...

Slight typo ...

Submitted by:  Ian Darwin <ian@darwinsys.com>

cosmetic change

Eliminate initial sleep(s) for getting the id token

Minor change ... make the report server a seperate subdomain then the
web server itself to make it easier to add on multiple report server
front ends

since we're removing a bunch of the sleep(s), let's increase the couple
that remain so that we have pretty much the same overall 'randomness' for
reporting systems ...

slight change to the when the sleeps happen ...

Various changes to address some major issues ...

See -questions for more details ...

Add a network connectivity check using dns

fix the code a bit to allow for setting the checkin_server to something
different ... instructions soon to follow on web site as to how to use
this to use apache to redirect requests through it as a 'light proxy'

Clean up the code a wee bit, since the non-FreeBSD case(s), where OSs don't
have pciconf, just keeps growing ...

Fix up code for use of /etc/rc.conf.local for those systems that don't use
periodic.conf

Submitted by:   Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>

Even better random number generator using jot ...

Apparently Sparc doesn't like using openssl to generate a random value ... it
created a 41 year 'sleep' time for one ...

Fix it to use sum instead of openssl

OpenBSD uses the same method to submit as NetBSD

Add 'unset HTTP_USER_AGENT' ... the backend is setup to only accept specific
USER_AGENTs, so if someone has this set in their shell when running it manually,
it will break

Add random sleep 'breaks' before doing the fetchs, to help reduce impact on
the server when all reporting hosts submit their data ... get them someone
staggered ...

Submitted by:   Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@siemens.com>

temporarily broke get_id function

Submitted by:   David Brownlee <abs@absd.org>

Several cleanups, and extensions to allow NetBSD to submit ...

 - uri_escape IDTOKEN properly
 - use ftp vs fetch
 - use /etc/rc.conf instead of /etc/periodic.conf

Submitted by:   David Brownlee <abs@absd.org>

forgot to 'cvs add' pkg-install

Submitted by: Paul Lipps <paul.lipps@gmail.com>

If installer enables the script, also prompt to run it the first
time

have it prompt, similar to postfix, whether or not you wish to activate
the script when you install it

Submitted by: Antony Mawer <antony@mawer.org>

First, set PATH similar to /etc/rc.shutdown, so that we don't have to
hardcode openssl, to allow for those using ports for it to easily make
use of acript

Second, check timestamp of /var/db/bsdstats to make sure that the 15
minutes have passed before submitting, so that ppl don't get that 'false
success' when they ctl-C

Submitted by: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>

Fix " : not found" when first running script

fix typo in PLIST_DIRS

Submitted by:   Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>

Fix variable name used for token file

Submitted by:   Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>

Ensure that data returned from server on initial challenge is, in
fact, only the data that we expect.

Submitted by:   Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>

This is mostly a rewrite of the bsdstats script:

    - eliminate use of ip/hostname as unique keys
    - reduce # of fetch's down to 4
    - move to using bsdstats.org
    - put in a time delay on initial challenge/response
      to make it a bit more difficult for fakers

somehow, defining $OS fell out in one of the commits ...

Include class information for devices, so that its easier to
categorize them in reports ...

Add some verbosity to the script, letting ppl know that a report has
been sent, and/or that it is disabled and how to enable it ...

Submitted by:   Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>

Add CPUs to the devices report, and clean up the script a bit

Submitted by:   Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>

remove the monthly_statistics_mailto variable from the script ... it
is not used, nor was it ever used ...

Redirect fetch output to /dev/null ...

have getid report operating system, so that other *BSDs can participate
as well ...

Makefile cleanup

Submitted by:   Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>

Add a message pointing people to where the stats themselves can
be viewed

bsdstats v2.0 ... device reporting

Record Operating System itself, in case someone in the NetBSD,
OpenBSD or DragonflyBSD decides they want to add to the stats, so
that we know where the numbers belong ...

Initial port for bsdstats script

Submitted by: John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net>

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