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[Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>]

Hi all,

This is optional to participate. I would like to get an idea of what 
spells are used and see what happens in the activity log. From the 
result I plan to generate a webpage summarizing the results.

I have attached a script called seer.pl, if you run this it will 
generate a file called yourhostname.profile.bz2. If you could email this 
to me I will include it in the statistics. Please don't reply to the 
sm-discuss mailing list, we don't need to swamp it with unnecessary data.

The seer.pl script merges your /etc/sorcery/local/config, 
/etc/sorcery/local/grimoire, installed spells, and activity log into bz2 
file. Hopefully is goes well, it's a very simple script.

If this works well I would like to incude a feature when chosen it would 
automatically send the profile of your system or you could manually send 
it. This would then be used to update the website of statistic and 
hightlight potential problems.  But another option is if the user 
chooses to they can include their email address and they would recieve 
an email notifying them a spell or spells they have installed have been 
update or a spell that they tried to install but failed has been updated 
or fixed. Possiblly notifications of serious problems with spells you 
have installed.

I'll post a url to the website when I have generated the website.

Cheers, Duane.

Attachment: seer.pl
Description: Perl program