[Popcon-developers] Bug#709892: unable to submit report to http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi

[Bill Allombert]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 10:30:54PM +0200, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I also get errors in /var/log/syslog:
> Jul  8 07:50:24 linutop popularity-contest: unable to submit report to http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi.
> Jul  8 22:02:10 linutop popularity-contest: unable to submit report to http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi.
> Jul  8 22:02:10 linutop popularity-contest: unable to submit report.
> 
> My timezone is: UTC+0200

The server is done currently. We re migrating to a new one as I type.

> I installed the package <http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/popcon/debs/popularity-contest_1.63~pre2_all.deb> as recommended in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709892#145
> $ md5sum popularity-contest_1.63~pre2_all.deb
> 98e86c145fc5377c1c6b796c63b66d41  popularity-contest_1.63~pre2_all.deb
> 
> And I just got an email from cron:
> /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: 69: /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: runuser: not found
> 
> This is strange because runuser is present on my system:
> $ type -a runuser
> runuser est /sbin/runuser
> 
> $ dlocate /sbin/runuser
> util-linux: /sbin/runuser
> 
> I also executed /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest directly and I get no error this time:
> $ sudo /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest

Probably /sbin is not in the PATH ?
What cron package do you use ?

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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