Re: [tor-bugs] #10734 [Ooni]: Include a cron in the ooni deb, to run certain tests daily?

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#10734: Include a cron in the ooni deb, to run certain tests daily?
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     Reporter:  arma         |      Owner:  hellais
         Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  assigned
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:
    Component:  Ooni         |    Version:
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Comment (by hellais):

 A pull request implementing this feature is here:
 https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/pull/276. I ended up for the
 time being doing the most simple thing which is schedule the running of
 ooniprobe with a test deck called "stable.deck" daily.
 This has two main issues:

 1) If the user does not have anacron installed (the default in ubuntu) and
 ooniprobe it misses the scheduled time to run it will not run for that
 day.

 2) If the network is down it will not reschedule to run the test later
 that day.

 To overcome these issues I think the best solution would be to have
 ooniprobe be a daemon and have an internal scheduling system for routinely
 running a series of specified tests.
 This would be a major feature though, so for the time being we are going
 to be satisfied with the current solution.

 I will open a separate ticket to discuss adding cron like scheduling
 support to ooniprobe as a daemon.

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