Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log

2024-10-29 Thread Bruno Schneider
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. F

Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log

2024-10-29 Thread Bruno Schneider
On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 4:00 PM Andy Smith wrote: > However, if popularity-contest experiences a problem during submit then > it does leave behind a file named like /var/log/popularity-contest.12345 > (and possibly another with .gpg on the end) where "12345" was the > process ID of the running popu

Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log

2024-10-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Bruno, On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 11:03:04AM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote: > I don't see why HTTP submissions would fail. 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. 😀 > I don

Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log

2024-10-26 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-10-25, Andy Smith wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 03:54:58PM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote: >> I noticed that I have hundreds of files whose names start with >> "popularity-contest" in /var/log. They don't even seem to be logs. >> They seem to be data that popularity-contest sends away. >

Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log

2024-10-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 03:54:58PM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote: > I noticed that I have hundreds of files whose names start with > "popularity-contest" in /var/log. They don't even seem to be logs. > They seem to be data that popularity-contest sends away. popularity-contest does log to the

Re: popularity contest : not sending email via HTTP

2010-05-31 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon May 31 2010 06:27:37 am Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > Hello, > > ... > > >> How to send email to popularity contest ? > > > > Run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" and set it up to use a smarthost, > > your usual email smtp address will probably be ok. > > Sorry I forgot to mention that this sys

Re: popularity contest : not sending email via HTTP

2010-05-31 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, ... How to send email to popularity contest ? Run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" and set it up to use a smarthost, your usual email smtp address will probably be ok. Sorry I forgot to mention that this system is not allowed to send email. So there is no exim4. This is why the HTTP

Re: popularity contest : not sending email via HTTP

2010-05-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun May 30 2010 01:57:47 pm Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > > I installed and activated the popularity contest package > (note : goal of this package is to gather statistics about package > usage and report them to Debian). > > Option http is activate to send the statistics (in place of email

Re: popularity contest

2005-11-03 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Rogério Brito wrote: On Nov 03 2005, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: My question is how do I know what information is being submitted? Is this written to some file on my hard drive? Usind Debian unstable See the logs in /var/log/popularity-contest* They are generated weekly, if I am not mi

Re: popularity contest

2005-11-03 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 03 2005, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > In dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest, I selected yes to participate > in popularity-contest and I am using HTTP to submit reports. Nice. Thank you. I'd hope that other would also do the same. > My question is how do I know what information is being s

Re: popularity-contest results viewable?

2001-01-11 Thread Colin Watson
Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there any way to view the statistics turned in by the >popularity-contest package? Thanks. Yes, see: http://people.debian.org/~apenwarr/popcon/ -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: popularity-contest broken pipe

1999-10-22 Thread Matthew W. Roberts
I should also note that I can run it from the command line no problem, it is just as a daily cron job that it has problems... Matt On Oct 21, 1999 at 05:41:26PM, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: > I installed popularity-contest (stable) on my machine and every day I get > the following message from cron