On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:05:26 +0200, Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]> 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
