On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 06:21:56PM +0200, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.77
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been unlucky and the two instance of the cronjob
> triggered at the same time, stepping on eachother feets.
> 
> (at the "savelog -c 7 popularity-contest >/dev/null" step precisely)

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

> Can you implement some locking ?

I expected savelog would implement locking against itself at least
but this is not the case.

> Or alternatively #923014 will get you locking for free
> on systemd running systems.

Would you help me with this ? 

Do you have spurious logfiles like

/var/log/popularity-contest.1010995
/var/log/popularity-contest.1010995.gpg

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>

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