[Popcon-developers] Bug#462268: popcon: stay out of lenny for a while

[Frans Pop]

I've just read the backlog for this issue and the only thing I can add to it 
that as soon as I added a delay to the cron script, my submissions stopped 
failing. For me personally that is sufficient proof that the cause of 
#440493 _was_ a DOS issue.

I made the change shown below to the cron script (etch system) and since 
then there have been no more failures, while before that it would fail 
every week.

[...]
# get configuration information
. /usr/share/popularity-contest/default.conf
. /etc/popularity-contest.conf

## Added FJP for debugging #440493
sleep 5m

# don't run if MAILTO address is blank, and not configured to use HTTP POST!
if [ -z "$MAILTO" ] && [ "yes" != "$USEHTTP" ]; then exit 0; fi
[...]

Cheers,
FJP
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