Of course, cron isn't broken. The chosen times for cron.* are just
inconvenient for desktop computers.
Suggestion: Anacron should be installed by default to also run cron.daily, weekly and monthly on computers that are not online 24/7. Otherwise you
will never get more information about installed packages and used files of desktop computers using Debian (by popcon). Sorry.
Another possibility would be to run an hourly popcon script which only
sends an email to popcon mail address if the last email is older than 7
days (e.g. by a timestamp file).
Martin Rasp
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I don't see any benefit for popcon to work around a broken cron configuration, so I reassign to cron.
And I don't see how cron is "broken". Cron is intended for computers
that are up 24x7. If they're not, install anacron.
I'm closing this.
Steve
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