Re: [HTCondor-users] Condor calling home to condor.cs.wisc.edu

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/28/2014 11:21 AM, Brian Candler wrote:
 > Now that I know to search for "CONDOR_DEVELOPERS_COLLECTOR" I found
> http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/privacy.html
> which explains that this does indeed happen, and says:
> "you are free to disable it at any time by changing the configuration
> variables CONDOR_DEVELOPERS and CONDOR_DEVELOPERS_COLLECTOR, both
> described in section 3.3.15 of the user's manual"
>
> without saying exactly what you need to do, without a hyperlink, and
> with the wrong section number.
[snip]
> Debugging this was not a happy experience, so I'm just reporting it here
> in case it helps others.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian.

Hi Brian,

I am sorry to hear about your unhappy experience above.  I also agree 
with you that it should not have required so much sleuthing to figure 
out how to disable these reports. We certainly did not intend to 
obscure how to disable this behavior! In an effort to improve the 
situation, I just updated the website privacy policy page to
  + state directly on that page how to disable the reports,
  + future-proof any hyperlinks on the privacy policy page
  + update the example of information that is sent.
In addition, the example annotated config file entries were updated to 
help admins quickly disable this behavior should they chose to do so - 
without digging around in the Manual.

These changes prompted by your email are collected in ticket 4706 at
 https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/tktview?tn=4706
and will be released starting with HTCondor v8.3.2. Please feel free add 
remarks to this ticket (or on this email list) with any further ideas 
you may have on this issue, much appreciated.

regards
Todd