[Popcon-developers] Bug#413529: p-c should use a better cron-script for mobile computers

[Bill Allombert]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:24:57PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.33
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hello Maintainer,
> 
> I run several Laptops and other Mobil-Computers with popularity-
> contest but unfortunatly the scripts are never executed.
> 
> What I have currently done is a script which is called all 15
> minutes and check whether it has (in the last 7 days) send a
> pop-con submission and if not, it create and send it.
> 
> It would be nice, if you can cleanly implement it specialy for
> Mobile-Computers.  I think, debconf can be used to (de)activate
> the script in /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest and use instead
> a /etc/cron.d/popularity-contest job.

Hello Michelle,

Why not simply install anacron which is part of the laptop task 
and is mentionned in the popcon FAQ ?

Cheers,
Bill.