Re: Bug#282742: Move daily find run later
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2004-11-24 Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> wrote:
> > Package: findutils
> [...]
> > On one machine I'm running a bit low on disk space in /var (this
> > morning less than 40 MB were free) but it has some large (and filled)
> > disks attached. This morning it seems that during the sort run of the
> > daily find run /var ran full as /tmp is placed on it.
>
> > It would be nice if the daily find run could be moved behind the
> > logrotate and sysklogd runs (maybe as zz_find) so that log files which
> > could grew quite large were already compressed.
> > Alternatively, I could move the sysklogd script to 00_sysklogd which
> > would leave logrotate (hmm, and the apache compress & rotate mechanism).
> [...]
> > PS: I wonder if for similar reasons the directory should be id
> > based entirely.
>
> Hello,
> I do not have any strong feelings about this. - If people think it to
> be the smart thing to do I can change it. However as the respective
> file is a dpkg-conffile it will be a PITA (I would mv
> /etc/cron.daily/find /etc/cron.daily/zz_find in preinst on upgrades)
> and I do not want to repeat the exercise.
zz_find? That's a really ugly name. I'ld rather not have it changed if
it means living with such a beast.
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