[Bug 299838] Re: /etc/cron.daily/find should be deleted when upgrading or it should use ionice -n instead of -p

[Marius Gedminas]

Wheee this bug manifested on my server after I upgraded Ubuntu 10.04 to
12.04 to 14.04.

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Title:
  /etc/cron.daily/find should be deleted when upgrading or it should use
  ionice -n instead of -p

Status in GNU Find Utilities:
  New
Status in “findutils” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: findutils

  In a fresh install of Intrepid there is no '/etc/cron.daily/find'
  file.  However, when upgrading from Hardy to Intrepid, a previously
  existing '/etc/cron.daily/find' is retained (and even included in
  /var/lib/dpkg/info/findutils.list which I find strange).

  The problem with the retained '/etc/cron.daily/find' file is that it
  uses the 'ionice' command with a wrong argument '-p', supplying a
  scheduling-class specific priority value as an argument of '-p' which
  takes actually a PID value.  The correct option would be '-n', and
  this is correct in the Intrepid '/etc/cron.daily/locate' coming from
  the locate package.

  The use of '-p' makes '/etc/cron.daily/find' fail with 'exit 1'
  randomly, depending on if there is a process with a PID equal to a
  priority value running in the system.

  If you purge 'findutils' from an upgraded Intrepid system and then
  reinstall it, the '/etc/cron.daily/find' file disappears and all is
  well.  However, this should probably happen automatically when
  findutils is upgraded.

  Description:	Ubuntu 8.10
  Release:	8.10
  Linux version 2.6.27-7-generic (buildd at palmer) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu11) ) #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008
  findutils: 4.4.0-2ubuntu3
  locate: 4.4.0-2ubuntu3
  both come from source package findutils

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