[Popcon-developers] Bug#316254: popularity-contest: does not work with too many packages

[Bill Allombert]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:56:47PM +0200, Laurent Bonnaud wrote:
> here is the problem:
> 
> # /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest
> tee: standard output: Broken pipe
> tee: write error
> 
> I use popularity-contest on several other systems with no problem.  My
> guess is that this system has too many packages installed:
> 
> $ dpkg -l |wc
>    8354   72879  937049
> ii  ssmtp [mail-transport-agent]  2.61-3     extremely simple MTA to get mail 

Hello Laurent,

You are using ssmtp and this is problem look identical to ssmtp bug #310327
which was also reported against popularity-contest.
I would advise you to use another MTA.

Thanks for your interest in popularity-contest,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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