[Popcon-developers] Bug#265456: popularity-contest: should run at other time than sunday morning

[Bill Allombert]

reassign 265456 cron
quit
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:25:00AM +0200, Martin.Rasp@ptb.de 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. <ballombe@debian.org>

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