Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log
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 file /var/log/popularity-contest,
which is rotated by logrotate.
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 popularity-contest.
So if that's what you see, you may wish to look in to why your
popularity-contest is consistently failing.
I would also agree that the system log directory is probably not the
best place for such files to be left behind, so that's maybe a wishlist
bug also.
Thanks,
Andy
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