Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log

[Bruno Schneider <boschneider@gmail.com>]

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 popularity-contest.

Yes, that's it. However, file names with a single digit also exist,
they seem to have the same content (but not the corresponding file
with the .gpg suffix) and they seem to be rotated.

> So if that's what you see, you may wish to look in to why your
> popularity-contest is consistently failing.

Well, journalctl says nothing about popularity-contest. I would expect
SMTP to servers outside to fail but
/etc/popularity-contest.conf has the option:
     USEHTTP="yes"

I don't see why HTTP submissions would fail. I don't know how else I
could look into why popularity-contest consistently fails.

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Bruno Schneider