Hi Mike, I have a cronjob already but some people might not like the fact the server will be "phoning home", that is why I put it to the lists so that we can see how many people object.
Thanks for the offer though I might make use of your skills at a later stage. Thanks again Lance On 13 Jan 2010, at 17:02, Michael Papet wrote: > 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 > > -- > This message was scanned by Better Hosted and is believed to be clean. > Click here to report this message as spam. > http://mx1.betterhosted.com/cgi-bin/learn-msg.cgi?id=0E5949FEEF.ADF63 > > -- 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
