Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-09-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Oliver Fromme wrote:


(1)  When run for the first time, you get an error message:
: not found
That's because a few bogus spaces after the backslash in
the line containing the chmod command.  Those trailing
spaces should be removed.  I suppose I don't need to send
a PR for that.  :-)


'k, that one is/was fixed ...


(2)  Some people aborted the inital sleep 900 (because
of the above-mentioned error message, or other reasons),
then restarted the script.  In this case there is no sleep,
and the submission _seems_ to be successful (no negative
feedback), but it isn't.

One way to improve the situation would be to check the
mtime on the /var/db/bsdstats file.  If it's younger than
900 seconds, a sleep is required.  For example, something
like this piece of shell code (untested):

FILETIME=$( stat -f %m $id_token_file )
NOW=$( date +%s )
if [ $(( $NOW - 900 )) -le $FILETIME ]; then
   SLEEPTIME=$(( 900 - ($NOW - $FILETIME) ))
   echo Token key is younger than 15 minutes!
   echo Sleeping $SLEEPTIME seconds, please wait.
   sleep $SLEEPTIME
fi


Code tested, and committed ... thanks ...


(3)  Some sites require the use of a proxy for HTTP access.
Such sites usually have an entry in /etc/make.conf, so the
ports can fetch their distfiles:

FETCH_ENV=  FTP_PROXY=http://proxy.my.site:3128 \
   HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy.my.site:3128

The bsdstats script could easily pick up that entry and set
the environment variables appropriatly.  This line at the
beginning of the script should be sufficient:

export $( make -V FETCH_ENV 2/dev/null )


'k, that one could be a problem, since adding that line produces:

# /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics
MACHTYPE
SSH_CLIENT
USER
MAIL
SHLVL
VENDOR
HOME
SSH_TTY
PAGER
GROUP
LOGNAME
BLOCKSIZE
TERM
PATH
REMOTEHOST
HOST
SHELL
OSTYPE
PWD
SSH_CONNECTION
FTP_PASSIVE_MODE
HOSTTYPE
EDITOR
Token key is younger than 15 minutes!
Sleeping 361 seconds, please wait.

Is there a better way of doing it that it would be silent?


(4)  Some sites have a proxy that requires authentication.
It is possible to include the password in the FETCH_ENV
entry in /etc/make.conf, but it's usually not a good idea
to do that, because you shouldn't write passwords to files
that are world-readable.

That problem could be solved in different ways.  One way
would be a periodic.conf setting that instructs the script
not to try to submit the data, but instead just print a
reminder to the admin that he should run the monthly script
manually (or print that reminder automatically when the
submission fails because the proxy denies access).
When the admin runs the script manually (which could be
detected by test -t 0, i.e. stdin is a terminal), it
could ask for the HTTP proxy password and then set the
HTTP_PROXY_AUTH variable appropriately (see fetch(3)).


'k, this one has been brought up, and was something that I am hoping to 
address once I get back online properly this week ...



(5)  Some machines might not be able to access the web at
all.  For example, I'm right now working on a farm of 35
machines which don't have internet access, not even via
a proxy.  I can connect to them via ssh/scp (port 22) from
a management machine, and that management machine only has
web access via a proxy.

It would be nice to be able to request token keys on behalf
of those 35 servers from the management machine, transfer
them to the servers, run the data gathering script on the
servers (putting it into a file instead of submitting it
directyl), copy the results to the management machine and
finally submit them from there.  That's pretty complicated,
but I'm afraid I haven't gotten a better idea so far.  :-(


Actually, this is one that we have discussed, and believe we have a 
solution for already, I just  have to sit down and code this one ...


And I think it might actually act as a way of dealing with (4) as well ...

We're goin ot have a 'use_email' setting ... what will happen is as 
follows:


Initial Install / Run:
  Email is sent to root containing IDTOKEN= as generated by host, root 
forwards that to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] sends back KEY= value 
to be put in /var/db/bsdstats (manual cut-n-paste) ... script is re-run a 
second time, submits report values to root, root forwards that to 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ...


Subsequent Runs:
  Email is sent to root containing report values, root forwards that to 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Now, in theory, root could have a filter on it that 'if subject = bsdstats 
report, auto-forward to [EMAIL PROTECTED]', but that would be totally up to 
the admin whether they wanted to do each report manually or not ...


(6)  All of the statistics on the web page are sorted by percentages. 
It would be nice to be able to click on a column header and have the 
table sorted by that value. That would be especially useful for the 
release statistics and the country statistics.


That is all major work in progress ... my first goal was to get data 

Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-09-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Paul Schmehl wrote:


Marc, thanks for all your hard work on these issues.

One small change needs to be made.  The pkg-message file reads, at its end:
o view current statistics, go to:
   http://bsdstats.hub.org

That needs to be changed to http://www.bsdstst.org/

This patch will fix it.

--- pkg-message.origMon Aug 14 10:02:29 2006
+++ pkg-message Mon Aug 14 10:02:51 2006
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@
   /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics

To view current statistics, go to:
-http://bsdstats.hub.org
+http://www.bsdstats.org



Fixed, thanks ...

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Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-18 Thread Marc G. Fournier


Thanks for your comments and suggestions ... I am currently in the middle 
of a campground working on a laptop (missing my desktop dearly, since this 
laptop is my wife's Windows box) ... when I get back online properly 
beginning of Sept, I will work on the suggestions though ... thx ...



On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Oliver Fromme wrote:


Marc G. Fournier wrote:
 Over the past few days, I've been working with Paul Schmehl and Matthew
 Seaman to come up with a more security sensitive version of BSDstats ...
 one that reduces the amount of sensitive information stored in the
 database down to ... zero.  No IPs, no hostnames ...
 [...]
 From now forward, the stats will be viewable from:

   http://www.bsdstats.org

That's very cool.  I've installed it on some of my machines.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to use it on all of them,
for reasons outlined below.

I've got a few suggestions and ideas ...

(1)  When run for the first time, you get an error message:
: not found
That's because a few bogus spaces after the backslash in
the line containing the chmod command.  Those trailing
spaces should be removed.  I suppose I don't need to send
a PR for that.  :-)

(2)  Some people aborted the inital sleep 900 (because
of the above-mentioned error message, or other reasons),
then restarted the script.  In this case there is no sleep,
and the submission _seems_ to be successful (no negative
feedback), but it isn't.

One way to improve the situation would be to check the
mtime on the /var/db/bsdstats file.  If it's younger than
900 seconds, a sleep is required.  For example, something
like this piece of shell code (untested):

FILETIME=$( stat -f %m $id_token_file )
NOW=$( date +%s )
if [ $(( $NOW - 900 )) -le $FILETIME ]; then
   SLEEPTIME=$(( 900 - ($NOW - $FILETIME) ))
   echo Token key is younger than 15 minutes!
   echo Sleeping $SLEEPTIME seconds, please wait.
   sleep $SLEEPTIME
fi

(3)  Some sites require the use of a proxy for HTTP access.
Such sites usually have an entry in /etc/make.conf, so the
ports can fetch their distfiles:

FETCH_ENV=  FTP_PROXY=http://proxy.my.site:3128 \
   HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy.my.site:3128

The bsdstats script could easily pick up that entry and set
the environment variables appropriatly.  This line at the
beginning of the script should be sufficient:

export $( make -V FETCH_ENV 2/dev/null )

(4)  Some sites have a proxy that requires authentication.
It is possible to include the password in the FETCH_ENV
entry in /etc/make.conf, but it's usually not a good idea
to do that, because you shouldn't write passwords to files
that are world-readable.

That problem could be solved in different ways.  One way
would be a periodic.conf setting that instructs the script
not to try to submit the data, but instead just print a
reminder to the admin that he should run the monthly script
manually (or print that reminder automatically when the
submission fails because the proxy denies access).
When the admin runs the script manually (which could be
detected by test -t 0, i.e. stdin is a terminal), it
could ask for the HTTP proxy password and then set the
HTTP_PROXY_AUTH variable appropriately (see fetch(3)).

(5)  Some machines might not be able to access the web at
all.  For example, I'm right now working on a farm of 35
machines which don't have internet access, not even via
a proxy.  I can connect to them via ssh/scp (port 22) from
a management machine, and that management machine only has
web access via a proxy.

It would be nice to be able to request token keys on behalf
of those 35 servers from the management machine, transfer
them to the servers, run the data gathering script on the
servers (putting it into a file instead of submitting it
directyl), copy the results to the management machine and
finally submit them from there.  That's pretty complicated,
but I'm afraid I haven't gotten a better idea so far.  :-(

(6)  All of the statistics on the web page are sorted by
percentages.  It would be nice to be able to click on a
column header and have the table sorted by that value.
That would be especially useful for the release statistics
and the country statistics.

(If the PHP sources and a database export were publicly
available, I would have taken a shot at implementing it.)

(7)  In order to make the bsdstats project really useful,
it is very important to have as many FreeBSD people as
possible install it.  Currently, only very few people will
notice the port and bother to install it.  Therefore I
suggest to put bsdstats into the base system (it's only a
small script after all, no bloat), and add a small switch
to sysinstall which asks users whether they want to enable
it, creating appropriate periodic.conf entry for them, and
maybe even automatically running it when booting the newly
installed system for the first time.

Maybe it should be proposed and discussed in the arch@
mailing list.

Best regards
  Oliver

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Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-17 Thread Oliver Fromme
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
  Over the past few days, I've been working with Paul Schmehl and Matthew 
  Seaman to come up with a more security sensitive version of BSDstats ... 
  one that reduces the amount of sensitive information stored in the 
  database down to ... zero.  No IPs, no hostnames ...
  [...]
  From now forward, the stats will be viewable from:
  
http://www.bsdstats.org

That's very cool.  I've installed it on some of my machines.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to use it on all of them,
for reasons outlined below.

I've got a few suggestions and ideas ...

(1)  When run for the first time, you get an error message:
 : not found
That's because a few bogus spaces after the backslash in
the line containing the chmod command.  Those trailing
spaces should be removed.  I suppose I don't need to send
a PR for that.  :-)

(2)  Some people aborted the inital sleep 900 (because
of the above-mentioned error message, or other reasons),
then restarted the script.  In this case there is no sleep,
and the submission _seems_ to be successful (no negative
feedback), but it isn't.

One way to improve the situation would be to check the
mtime on the /var/db/bsdstats file.  If it's younger than
900 seconds, a sleep is required.  For example, something
like this piece of shell code (untested):

FILETIME=$( stat -f %m $id_token_file )
NOW=$( date +%s )
if [ $(( $NOW - 900 )) -le $FILETIME ]; then
SLEEPTIME=$(( 900 - ($NOW - $FILETIME) ))
echo Token key is younger than 15 minutes!
echo Sleeping $SLEEPTIME seconds, please wait.
sleep $SLEEPTIME
fi

(3)  Some sites require the use of a proxy for HTTP access.
Such sites usually have an entry in /etc/make.conf, so the
ports can fetch their distfiles:

FETCH_ENV=  FTP_PROXY=http://proxy.my.site:3128 \
HTTP_PROXY=http://proxy.my.site:3128

The bsdstats script could easily pick up that entry and set
the environment variables appropriatly.  This line at the
beginning of the script should be sufficient:

export $( make -V FETCH_ENV 2/dev/null )

(4)  Some sites have a proxy that requires authentication.
It is possible to include the password in the FETCH_ENV
entry in /etc/make.conf, but it's usually not a good idea
to do that, because you shouldn't write passwords to files
that are world-readable.

That problem could be solved in different ways.  One way
would be a periodic.conf setting that instructs the script
not to try to submit the data, but instead just print a
reminder to the admin that he should run the monthly script
manually (or print that reminder automatically when the
submission fails because the proxy denies access).
When the admin runs the script manually (which could be
detected by test -t 0, i.e. stdin is a terminal), it
could ask for the HTTP proxy password and then set the
HTTP_PROXY_AUTH variable appropriately (see fetch(3)).

(5)  Some machines might not be able to access the web at
all.  For example, I'm right now working on a farm of 35
machines which don't have internet access, not even via
a proxy.  I can connect to them via ssh/scp (port 22) from
a management machine, and that management machine only has
web access via a proxy.

It would be nice to be able to request token keys on behalf
of those 35 servers from the management machine, transfer
them to the servers, run the data gathering script on the
servers (putting it into a file instead of submitting it
directyl), copy the results to the management machine and
finally submit them from there.  That's pretty complicated,
but I'm afraid I haven't gotten a better idea so far.  :-(

(6)  All of the statistics on the web page are sorted by
percentages.  It would be nice to be able to click on a
column header and have the table sorted by that value.
That would be especially useful for the release statistics
and the country statistics.

(If the PHP sources and a database export were publicly
available, I would have taken a shot at implementing it.)

(7)  In order to make the bsdstats project really useful,
it is very important to have as many FreeBSD people as
possible install it.  Currently, only very few people will
notice the port and bother to install it.  Therefore I
suggest to put bsdstats into the base system (it's only a
small script after all, no bloat), and add a small switch
to sysinstall which asks users whether they want to enable
it, creating appropriate periodic.conf entry for them, and
maybe even automatically running it when booting the newly
installed system for the first time.

Maybe it should be proposed and discussed in the arch@
mailing list.

Best regards
   Oliver

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Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-16 Thread Igor Robul
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:37:10AM -0400, John Nielsen wrote:
 On Tuesday 15 August 2006 08:12, Igor Robul wrote:
  On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:19:05AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
   None of the pre-v3.x clients can talk to the v3.x server, since the DB
   format has totally changed, so everyone needs to grab the latest version
   and run it so that we can re-sync the database properly ...
 
  It does not build with read-only /usr/ports and WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/build
  v2.0 worked fine
 
 It doesn't build at all (although it does create a work directory to keep 
 track of its progress). I always set WRKDIRPREFIX and didn't have any trouble 
 upgrading. Are you sure there's not something else going on?
I know, that it does not build 
strange ... when I had done make install today it didnt complainned ...
so maybe I really did something strange :-)
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Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Jonathan Horne wrote:

i noticed the percentages columns, they definatly make the information 
all that more fascinating.  would it be possible to segregate the far 
right column by release, and show what percentages of the 6.1s are 
stable, p3, p2, release?  etc etc?  that column as it sits is still good 
information (so im not suggesting dumping it), but i would like to see 
another section to break out the versions, by percentages.


Took me a couple of reads to understand what you were asking here ... yes, 
should be possible, but will have to do it later (ie. on TODO list) ...



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Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-15 Thread Igor Robul
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:19:05AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
 None of the pre-v3.x clients can talk to the v3.x server, since the DB 
 format has totally changed, so everyone needs to grab the latest version 
 and run it so that we can re-sync the database properly ...
It does not build with read-only /usr/ports and WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/build
v2.0 worked fine
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Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 08:12, Igor Robul wrote:
 On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:19:05AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
  None of the pre-v3.x clients can talk to the v3.x server, since the DB
  format has totally changed, so everyone needs to grab the latest version
  and run it so that we can re-sync the database properly ...

 It does not build with read-only /usr/ports and WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/build
 v2.0 worked fine

It doesn't build at all (although it does create a work directory to keep 
track of its progress). I always set WRKDIRPREFIX and didn't have any trouble 
upgrading. Are you sure there's not something else going on?

JN
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BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier


Over the past few days, I've been working with Paul Schmehl and Matthew 
Seaman to come up with a more security sensitive version of BSDstats ... 
one that reduces the amount of sensitive information stored in the 
database down to ... zero.  No IPs, no hostnames ...


This new version also reduces the number of 'network fetches' down to 4 
for the first run, and 3 for subsequent runs, so it runs a bit faster, and 
talks across the network less.


And, finally, this one has its own domain for check in server ...

None of the pre-v3.x clients can talk to the v3.x server, since the DB 
format has totally changed, so everyone needs to grab the latest version 
and run it so that we can re-sync the database properly ...



From now forward, the stats will be viewable from:


 http://www.bsdstats.org


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Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-14 Thread Paul Schmehl

Marc G. Fournier wrote:


Over the past few days, I've been working with Paul Schmehl and Matthew 
Seaman to come up with a more security sensitive version of BSDstats 
... one that reduces the amount of sensitive information stored in the 
database down to ... zero.  No IPs, no hostnames ...


This new version also reduces the number of 'network fetches' down to 4 
for the first run, and 3 for subsequent runs, so it runs a bit faster, 
and talks across the network less.


And, finally, this one has its own domain for check in server ...

None of the pre-v3.x clients can talk to the v3.x server, since the DB 
format has totally changed, so everyone needs to grab the latest version 
and run it so that we can re-sync the database properly ...



From now forward, the stats will be viewable from:


 http://www.bsdstats.org


Marc, thanks for all your hard work on these issues.

One small change needs to be made.  The pkg-message file reads, at its end:
o view current statistics, go to:
http://bsdstats.hub.org

That needs to be changed to http://www.bsdstst.org/

This patch will fix it.

--- pkg-message.origMon Aug 14 10:02:29 2006
+++ pkg-message Mon Aug 14 10:02:51 2006
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@
/usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics

 To view current statistics, go to:
-http://bsdstats.hub.org
+http://www.bsdstats.org
 



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Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-14 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 14 August 2006 09:19, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
 Over the past few days, I've been working with Paul Schmehl and Matthew
 Seaman to come up with a more security sensitive version of BSDstats ...
 one that reduces the amount of sensitive information stored in the
 database down to ... zero.  No IPs, no hostnames ...

 This new version also reduces the number of 'network fetches' down to 4
 for the first run, and 3 for subsequent runs, so it runs a bit faster, and
 talks across the network less.

 And, finally, this one has its own domain for check in server ...

 None of the pre-v3.x clients can talk to the v3.x server, since the DB
 format has totally changed, so everyone needs to grab the latest version
 and run it so that we can re-sync the database properly ...

 From now forward, the stats will be viewable from:

   http://www.bsdstats.org

This is great!

Is the 15-minute first-time waiting period enforced on the server side? 
Obviously there's nothing to stop an administrator from editing the script 
locally..

Thanks again for all your efforts.

JN
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Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, John Nielsen wrote:


This is great!

Is the 15-minute first-time waiting period enforced on the server side?
Obviously there's nothing to stop an administrator from editing the script
locally..


It is enforced on the server side ... in fact, one person just reported to 
me that they killed the script and re-ran it, and the stats went through 
... they didn't, the server side will reject the submission until the 
first minute time has elapsed ... I've got some ideas on how to better 
clean that up on the client side ...



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Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-14 Thread Scott Sipe


On Aug 14, 2006, at 4:28 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:


On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, John Nielsen wrote:


This is great!

Is the 15-minute first-time waiting period enforced on the server  
side?
Obviously there's nothing to stop an administrator from editing  
the script

locally..


It is enforced on the server side ... in fact, one person just  
reported to me that they killed the script and re-ran it, and the  
stats went through ... they didn't, the server side will reject the  
submission until the first minute time has elapsed ... I've got  
some ideas on how to better clean that up on the client side ...




This just happened to me as well--I installed the port, added lines  
to periodic.conf and manually ran:


/usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics

output as follows:

# /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics
chown: /var/db/bsdstats: No such file or directory
To protect against abuse, the initial challenge/response phase
contains a 15 minute pause.  Please be patient while this time
limit elapses
^C
# /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics
Posting monthly OS statistics to bsdstats.org
Posting monthly device statistics to bsdstats.org
Posting monthly CPU statistics to bsdstats.org

I cancelled it to see why it showed the chown error.

Scott
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Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Scott Sipe wrote:



On Aug 14, 2006, at 4:28 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:


On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, John Nielsen wrote:


This is great!

Is the 15-minute first-time waiting period enforced on the server side?
Obviously there's nothing to stop an administrator from editing the script
locally..


It is enforced on the server side ... in fact, one person just reported to 
me that they killed the script and re-ran it, and the stats went through 
... they didn't, the server side will reject the submission until the first 
minute time has elapsed ... I've got some ideas on how to better clean that 
up on the client side ...




This just happened to me as well--I installed the port, added lines to 
periodic.conf and manually ran:


/usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics

output as follows:

# /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics
chown: /var/db/bsdstats: No such file or directory
To protect against abuse, the initial challenge/response phase
contains a 15 minute pause.  Please be patient while this time
limit elapses
^C
# /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics
Posting monthly OS statistics to bsdstats.org
Posting monthly device statistics to bsdstats.org
Posting monthly CPU statistics to bsdstats.org

I cancelled it to see why it showed the chown error.


chown error fixed in CVS now ... and if you run the script *now*, it will 
be past the 15 min mark and will submit properly ...



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Re: BSDstats v3.0 - The Security Rewrite

2006-08-14 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Monday 14 August 2006 08:19, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
 Over the past few days, I've been working with Paul Schmehl and Matthew
 Seaman to come up with a more security sensitive version of BSDstats ...
 one that reduces the amount of sensitive information stored in the
 database down to ... zero.  No IPs, no hostnames ...

 This new version also reduces the number of 'network fetches' down to 4
 for the first run, and 3 for subsequent runs, so it runs a bit faster, and
 talks across the network less.

 And, finally, this one has its own domain for check in server ...

 None of the pre-v3.x clients can talk to the v3.x server, since the DB
 format has totally changed, so everyone needs to grab the latest version
 and run it so that we can re-sync the database properly ...

 From now forward, the stats will be viewable from:

   http://www.bsdstats.org

 
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mark,

i noticed the percentages columns, they definatly make the information all 
that more fascinating.  would it be possible to segregate the far right 
column by release, and show what percentages of the 6.1s are stable, p3, p2, 
release?  etc etc?  that column as it sits is still good information (so im 
not suggesting dumping it), but i would like to see another section to break 
out the versions, by percentages.

my 2 cents, :)
jonathan
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