This one time, at band camp, Andreas Metzler said: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 05:32:20PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote: > >> On 2004-11-24 Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> wrote: > >>> Package: findutils > [...] > >>> 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. > > Have you got any better ideas? Afaik the only possibilty to move the > job is by giving it a name that sorts later. Do the run-parts stuff, and then run this special script in /usr/share last, if it exists. A little ugly and special case, but I think I'd rather have that than a zz_find script (ick) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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