Lance, this is pretty easy. use a wget job to download a url. 'wget http://bongo.org/hello.htm' to /tmp. wget has an overwrite option. The trick is to randomize the day/hour/minute on the cron job. Otherwise you will have the 'thundering herd' problem.
Track the number of hits on the url with a web log parser. Wget should be standard on any linux distro. I can work a perl/bash script up for you, but it'll take quite a bit of time as my schedule right now is very tight. Mike. --- On Wed, 1/13/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Bongo-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 2 > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 3:00 AM > Send Bongo-devel mailing list > submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/bongo-devel > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' > to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more > specific > than "Re: Contents of Bongo-devel digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Usage Tracking Ideas (Lance Haig) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:27:37 +0000 > From: Lance Haig <[email protected]> > Subject: [Bongo-devel] Usage Tracking Ideas > To: Bongo Developers <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hi All, > > I have been creating images for Bongo now for a few years > and one of the problems we have is that we have no idea how > many people use the images or Bongo for that matter. > > I was thinking how we could create some way to show user > numbers. > > I have seen that another project has a cronjob that > downloads a txt file from the project web server and then > deletes it. > > This gives them the rough numbers of servers out there and > also which countries the servers are sitting. > > On the website they tell the users of the cronjob and how > to turn it off. > > Does anyone have any ideas how we can start tracking the > number of Bongo servers out there? > > I really want this to be implemented soon so we can know > how many there are, this will help me to determine how > urgent any fixes need to be compiled for the images. > > Can I please have your thoughts and suggestions. > > Regards > > Lance > -- > This message was scanned by Better Hosted and is believed > to be clean. > http://www.betterhosted.com > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bongo-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/bongo-devel > > > End of Bongo-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 2 > ****************************************** > _______________________________________________ Bongo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/bongo-devel
