[tor-bugs] #10734 [Onionoo]: 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:
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:
Component:  Onionoo      |        Version:
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 My hope is to start with one very conservative, robust, and reasonably
 harmless test, and have it run by default on as many ooni deb
 installations as possible. As discussed with Arturo, the http header
 manipulation test seems like a good candidate.

 But once we have that test in mind, how can we get it to run
 automatically? One idea is for the ooniprobe deb to install a cron entry.
 To not surprise users too much, should we have the ooniprobe deb install
 ask the user if they want to set it up to run the conservative tests
 nightly? (For a noninteractive install, the answer can be an auto no, on
 the principle of least surprise.)

 weasel says
 {{{
 the crontab entry should probably be something like
 @daily ooni [ -x /usr/bin/ooni-report ] && /usr/bin/ooni-report
 }}}
 and then he adds
 {{{
 and ooni-report reads /etc/default/ooni to find out what it should
 and shouldn't do.
 that file probably should be quite simple.  maybe just a shell script
 snippet setting REPORT to none|stable|all .
 getting the debconf scripting right is a bit of a pain, and complex
 formats or data structures increase the pain manyfold.
 }}}

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