Thanks for the ideas. Has anyone else got alternatives or strong feelings about this phoning home feature?
Regards Lance On 01/13/2010 07:42 PM, Michael Papet wrote: > Just document the fact it's phoning home and what it is doing when in the act > of phoning home and how to disable it. In a related note, it might be a > good idea to collect uptime/crash info while it's phoning home. As long as > the 'phoning home' isn't terribly complicated, (ex. a script) then it won't > be an issue for even an amateur admin. > > There might be somebody at some point cry foul, but the reasonable reply is > "It's documented. If it's a problem for you, turn it off. This kind of flame > baiting is not welcome." Or more derogatory, "You want to cry wolf over this > one? It's well documented including how to turn it off. Begone!" > > Mike. > --- On Wed, 1/13/10, Lance Haig<[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Lance Haig<[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Bongo-devel] Bongo-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 2 >> To: "Michael Papet"<[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 9:59 AM >> 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 >> >> > > > > > -- > 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=DA47A9FF08.A9623 > > -- 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
