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

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Jon Daley <debian at jon.limedaley.com> [2010.05.30.1402 +0200]:
> 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?

Because the process can weigh heavily on the system and that's
probably best done on a sunday morning, rather than at 6am on the
first of each month.

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