From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DCEA138A1F for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 08:49:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 76D6EE0B92; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 08:49:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C07E0B84 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 08:49:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BAF3D23F6A for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:49:17 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 09:49:12 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] app-admin/mcelog daily cronjob? Message-ID: <20140417094912.4fce8182@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <931458D2-51AE-47CF-97B2-8DD1EFBBE56A@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> References: <931458D2-51AE-47CF-97B2-8DD1EFBBE56A@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3-66-g57e2da (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/n3eokGT24iVkl_+iEAAMcGD"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 6fcc3549-316b-4618-95e4-2c9c0be42d2d X-Archives-Hash: 13582f29e848e604042d5ffb0a5a10a5 --Sig_/n3eokGT24iVkl_+iEAAMcGD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:39:16 +0100, Stroller wrote: > Nevertheless, when I look at the http://mcelog.org/ homepage, specified > in the package description, it says: >=20 > Traditionally mcelog was run as a cronjob, but this usage is > deprecated now. The modern way to run it is to start it at > boot up time and run it always as a daemon. >=20 > I tried unmerging app-admin/mcelog and the cron.daily file is removed; > then remerging (the latest stable version - 1.0_pre3_p20130621-r1) and > it's reinstalled with the same permissions. >=20 > So I guess my question is: is this a bug with the app-admin/mcelog > package? I don't think so. If the running via cron is possible but deprecated, proving a cron script with execute permissions disabled seems a sensible way of covering both options. As mcelog is not critical, why not try unmerging it for a couple of days to see whether the messages disappear? --=20 Neil Bothwick New sig wanted good price paid. --Sig_/n3eokGT24iVkl_+iEAAMcGD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlNPlY0ACgkQum4al0N1GQP/qQCePajGQKcKLiqnH1Y+C9Ke9cuR MrkAoImeT8WRtzl9GUFcwYTNxdZqTmD6 =ssB/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/n3eokGT24iVkl_+iEAAMcGD--