On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 11:03 AM Bruno Schneider wrote: > Well, journalctl says nothing about popularity-contest. I would expect > SMTP to servers outside to fail but
My bad there, journalctl must be run by a privileged user. Doing so, I can see lots of "unable to submit report to..." messages. For the record, the command is: # journalctl -t popularity-contest On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 12:37 PM Andy Smith wrote: > You can't conceive of how a TCP connection over the Internet to a remote > server managed by someone else could fail? This speaks to a lack of > imagination I'm afraid. 😀 Ok, what I really mean is that it shouldn't be failing consistently. > If I were you I'd be looking at how often it fails compared to how often > it is run. Are there files left behind in /var/log for every invocation > for example. Ok, that is hard to tell. It doesn't log successes, It should submit data once a week, but for some weeks I can find more than one pair of files left behind, so I'm guessing it is aware that it failed last time and tries again. If it fails EVERY time, I guess there should be more files (instead of mostly one pair per week). I tried running it a few times by hand. No output on the shell, but logs say they all failed. Since I just want it to stop cluttering my /var/log and I don't need it, I guess I'll just get rid of the whole thing. -- Bruno Schneider
