On Mon, 3 Aug 2026 at 19:11, Bill Allombert < [email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 03, 2026 at 12:09:58AM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Jul 2026 at 21:14, Bill Allombert > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > i just want to know what it's going to send, without actually sending any > > > > mails to anyone.
> > I think the intention with the cron approach was: > > a) at install time, $DAY is chosen randomly as a day of the week (date(1)'s %w) > > b) always submit on $DAY > > c) also submit if we ever notice it's been a week without a submission > > Thanks for you effort! > > There is an extra difficulty: > > At install time, a file /etc/cron.d/popularity-contest is created with a > random time of day so that different systems reports at different time. > Unfortunately, we do not know whether the system will be up at that time, > so we also run the script via the normal /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest > mechanism. > > But likely you take this into account already Yes, and i've now found some better systemd options: i think it works, including other mta, tor, cron, non-systemd, people rejecting conffiles https://salsa.debian.org/rpil2/popularity-contest/-/merge_requests/1 has the code for you to look at
