I would like your opinions about something that could seems futile or an excuse but is the reason behind my interest for debian : " THE DEBIAN WAY " I use an old laptop with a not so good ide drive. Each time a soft uses too much the drive, the feeling (responsiveness) of the system is degraded. It not so bad but for some particular cases it's very bad. One of this case is 'find /' cron comes with two script in cron.daily which use 'find /'. I use anacron (normal for a laptop user, isn't is). I have desactivated the locate database, I don't need it and it's a saparate file in cron.daily so it was easy. The other one is checksecurity. This tool is used in the 'standard' script. I want to keep the other parts of the 'standard' script in my daily cron and I want to run the checksecurity stuff weekly. If checksecurity was a separate script a simple divert could solve my problem. checksecurity has a config file but the best we can do here is turn it on or off. I have send a bug (with the wishlist severity but I spell it badly in the bug mail so it ended with a normal severity) to the cron maintener. He closes the bug by explaining me how to copy/paste the revelant 4 lines of the standard file. IMHO it is not the debian way. I expect to be able to configure my system in a way that I would not have to do it manually after each upgrade, and in a way that I will not keep an old standard script. I agree that he has the right to consider my request not revelant but I would like, in this case, to get a reason debian-compliant. Please give me your opinion, Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <christophe.barbe@ufies.org> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein, On Science
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