[Popcon-developers] Bug#635673: popcon won't run consistently on machines that sleep at night
Bryce Nesbitt
bryce2 at obviously.com
Thu Jul 28 01:39:05 UTC 2011
Package: popularity-contest
Version: trunk
As configured in Debian, popularity-contest can miss sending reports.
The day parameter specifies a day, but it is possible that a particular
machine will be consistently asleep at that time. For example a machine
in a 9-5 Monday-Friday office. Even if anacron is in place to run the
script, the given DAY may have already passed.
A mixture of anacron and a change to the DAY="X" parameter would solve
this, ensuring some randomness in the reporting, but not skipping out
hearing from some classes of machines.
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