Bug#580825: mdadm: why not cron.monthly?

[Jon Daley]

Package: mdadm
Version: 3.0.3-2
Severity: normal


I have the same question as Eric asked above.  Why do you use all this "fancy" logic to run it only once a month, rather than use cron.monthly, which would take care of it for you?


semi-auto-generated on Sun, 30 May 2010 07:55:09 -0400 by mdadm bugscript 3.0.3-2

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (700, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mdadm depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.5.32     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-9   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  makedev                       2.3.1-89   creates device files in /dev
ii  udev                          154-1      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages mdadm recommends:
ii  module-init-tools            3.12~pre2-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agen 2.6.5-3     High-performance mail transport ag

mdadm suggests no packages.