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Re: apt: cron.daily necessary?



Jakub Wilk wrote:

> * Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com>, 2009-09-08, 13:28:
>>> Since CFQ is the default IO scheduler, this kind of tasks should be
>>> launched with "ionice -c3", no ?
>>
>>But that would introduce a dependency on ionice. An option would be to use
>>start-stop-daemon's IO nice capabilities.
> 
> $ dlocate -S /bin/ionice
> util-linux: /usr/bin/ionice
> 
> $ apt-cache show util-linux | grep ^Essential
> Essential: yes
> 
> 

Er, right. I guess I need to stop working on init scripts (since ionice is
under /usr, any init script using it needs to add a *dependency* on
$remote_fs on the LSB header).

Sorry for the noise.

Cheers,
Raphael Geissert



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