On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:05:26 +0200, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Hi everybody,
pkgstats is neither in [core] or critical but nonetheless I'd like to get some positive feedback before moving it to extra and making an announcement.
I have added a cronjob which is installed to /etc/cron.weekly and run as user nobody. This makes it an "install and forget" package and we'll get data regulary and just when we ask for it.
Sending user data periodically to us is a critical thing. To decrease people's concerns (and mine) I have implemented it this way: * pkgstats will remain an optional package * the script is kept as easy as possible for people to see what it does * the cron is run as nobody and not root (anyone knows how to do this without sudo? no, su does not work it seems) * don't collect more data than is really needed for our work
Greetings,
Pierre
The new version no longer requires sudo. If there are no objections I'll move this to extra once filesystem is in core. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre