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  • Bug#265456: popularity-contest: should run at other time than sunday mo

    From [email protected]@1:229/2 to All on Fri Aug 13 11:40:09 2004
    Package: popularity-contest
    Version: 1.3-1.1
    Severity: wishlist

    (Debian) Desktop computers are often off-state at sunday 6:47 am when cron.weekly executes popcon report. By default Debian doesn't install
    anacron which prevents many desktop computers from participation. If you
    want more information about desktop computers you should change the time
    popcon report runs.

    This wishlist item applies to Debian Woody as well as Debian Sarge.

    -- System Information
    Debian Release: 3.0
    Architecture: i386
    Kernel: Linux d84118 2.4.26 #2 Fre Aug 6 09:15:18 CEST 2004 i686
    Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro

    Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
    ii debconf 1.0.32 Debian configuration
    management sy
    ii dpkg-awk 1.0.1 Gawk script to parse
    /var/lib/dpkg
    ii gawk 1:3.1.0-3 GNU awk, a pattern scanning
    and pr
    ii sendmail [mail-transport-agen 8.12.3-6.6 A powerful, efficient, and
    scalabl



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  • From Petter Reinholdtsen@1:229/2 to All on Sun Aug 15 13:30:09 2004
    From: [email protected]

    (Debian) Desktop computers are often off-state at sunday 6:47 am
    when cron.weekly executes popcon report. By default Debian doesn't
    install anacron which prevents many desktop computers from
    participation. If you want more information about desktop computers
    you should change the time popcon report runs.

    People turning off their computers will do so at random times. I see
    no way to predict which time are more likely to leave a computer
    running, and believe this issue need to be fixed elsewere. If we
    can't depend on cron to run weekly jobs once a week, there is no way
    to know if the job is executed at all.

    Because of this, I believe it is a bad idea to change the run time for
    popcon believing that it will increase the chances of the job being
    executed by more machines. Perhaps desktop machines and laptops
    should get anacron installed by default instead?


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  • From Bill Allombert@1:229/2 to [email protected] on Sun Aug 15 22:30:11 2004
    From: [email protected]

    reassign 265456 cron
    quit
    On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:25:00AM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
    Package: popularity-contest
    Version: 1.3-1.1
    Severity: wishlist

    (Debian) Desktop computers are often off-state at sunday 6:47 am when cron.weekly executes popcon report. By default Debian doesn't install
    anacron which prevents many desktop computers from participation. If you
    want more information about desktop computers you should change the time popcon report runs.

    This wishlist item applies to Debian Woody as well as Debian Sarge.

    Hello,
    The time cron.weekly is run is determined by the cron package in the
    file /etc/crontab. If your computer is down at the time specified,
    no cron.weekly jobs will run, not just popcon.

    To solve that you can either edit /etc/crontab or install anacron (recommended).

    I don't see any benefit for popcon to work around a broken cron
    configuration, so I reassign to cron.

    Cheers,
    --
    Bill. <[email protected]>

    Imagine a large red swirl here.


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