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Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log

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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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Popularity contest files in /var/log Bruno Schneider <boschneider@gmail.com> - 2024-10-25 21:00 +0200
  Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-10-25 21:10 +0200
    Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2024-10-26 15:50 +0200
    Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log Bruno Schneider <boschneider@gmail.com> - 2024-10-29 15:10 +0100
      Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2024-10-29 16:40 +0100
        Re: Popularity contest files in /var/log Bruno Schneider <boschneider@gmail.com> - 2024-10-29 21:30 +0100

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