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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too) Date: 20 Dec 1995 22:35:45 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4ba341$bls@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <HAFNER.95Dec12090710@suncog2.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de> <4akmcp$qii@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <4al9tu$f33@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <4alnqo$1hi@clarknet.clark.net> <4am5uq$r24@agate.berkeley.edu> <4arhgi$f0c@felix.junction.net> <4as2e7$91r@cnn.princeton.edu> <4asrpo$85k@agate.berkeley.edu> <4atie8$hsv@agate.berkeley.edu> <4atq47$l46@agate.berkeley.edu> <4av2tb$4ip@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:31103 alt.os.linux:6606 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10954 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1639 bicknell@ussenterprise.ufp.org (Leo Bicknell) writes: > My suggestion? Take a random sample of hosts, but > a large one, say 20,000 machines at different sites all over > the world. Telnet to them and grok the banner. Keep track > of how many are FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, OS/1, Solaris, > and so on. (didn't one of the SATAN modules do that?) Hmm, but please tell me 5 minutes in advance if you chose one of my systems. My login banners usually _don't_ mention the operating system at all. I would temporarily revert the banner to the original one then, so you could count me in... :-) (Yup, SATAN claims them as ``unknown system''. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)