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

[linux4michelle@freenet.de (Michelle Konzack)]

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.

E.g.:
----[ '/etc/cron.d/popularity-contest' ]-------------------------------
*/15 * * * * /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest foo
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

and

----[ '/etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest' ]--------------------------
#!/bin/sh

# don't run if this package is removed but not purged
if [ ! -f /usr/sbin/popularity-contest ]; then
	exit 0
fi

unset MAILFROM
unset MAILTO
unset MY_HOSTID
unset PARTICIPATE

# get configuration information
. /usr/share/popularity-contest/default.conf
. /etc/popularity-contest.conf

# Check, whether we run mobile and if called from cron.d
if [ "${MOBILE}" = "true" ] && [ -z "$1" ] ; then exit 0 ; fi

# Check, whether the delay between two calls is greater then
# 7 days (604800 seconds)
if [ "${MOBILE}" = "true" ] ; then
  OLDTIME=$(cat /var/lib/popularity-contest/lastrun 2>/dev/null)
  NEWTIME=$(date +%s)
  DIFTIME=$((NEWTIME-OLDTIME))
  if [ ${DIFTIME} -lt 604800 ] ; then exit 0 ; fi
  echo "${NEWTIME}" >/var/lib/popularity-contest/lastrun
fi

<snip>
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

and for the to "debconf" added VALUE ${MOBILE}

----[ '/etc/popularity-contest.conf' ]---------------------------------
MY_HOSTID="7a500ea53cd746e7b10608044eb387a2"
PARTICIPATE="yes"

MAILTO="survey@popcon.debian.org, XXXXXXXXX.XXXXXXX.XXXXX@freenet.de"
MAILFROM="XXXXXXXXX.XXXXXXX.XXXXX@freenet.de"

MOBILE="true"
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

which mean, the pop-con script will only run, if

1)  the value of MOBILE is "false" and $1 is empty (which is the case
    if it run from /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest

2)  if calue of MOBILE is true and $1 is anything but not empty (which
    is the case if run from '/etc/cron.d/popularity-contest')

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant



-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux samba3.private 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Nov 30 21:38:51 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux


Versions of the packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf        1.5.3          Debian configuration management system
ii  dpkg           1.13.21        package maintenance system for Debian
debconf Version: 1.5.3 (Provides virtual package debconf-2.0)
ii  debconf        1.5.3          Debian configuration management system
        ^^^ (Provides virtual package debconf-2.0)
dpkg-awk        Not installed or no info



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