Re: [gentoo-user] app-admin/mcelog daily cronjob?

[Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:13:57 +0100
Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 17 April 2014, at 2:32 pm, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> >> ...
> >> Do you seriously consider it up for debate whether or not it's a
> >> bug, when daily error messages are produced and emailed to the
> >> system admin?
> > 
> > That depends on whether you consider that to be the expected
> > behavior for the way it has been set up; the cause is already
> > known, wrong perms.
> 
> Well, it seems to be the Gentoo devs that set it up this way.
>
> You're the expert - you tell me why this is happening.

Your found information and the post installation messages tell this:

  "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."

  "A sample cronjob is installed into /etc/cron.daily
  without executable bit (system service is the preferred method now)"

There is nothing extra for a non-maintainer to add to this.

> You haven't given me any explanation why this package is on a
> freshly-installed Gentoo system, you haven't told me in the Gentoo
> install docs that I need to configure this package, have you?

That is because you have installed it; and if you did install it, then
the useful post installation messages tell you this information.

To demonstrate that this is the case, app-admin/mcelog is ...

... not part of the current stage3 as revealed by its contents list;

    $ grep app-admin/mcelog stage3-amd64-20140410.tar.bz2.CONTENTS
    $

... not pulled in by another dependency as recorded in the database;

    $ grep --include='*DEPEND' -rl app-admin/mcelog /var/db/pkg/
    $

... not pulled in through profiles and therefore not by the @system set

    $ grep -r app-admin/mcelog /usr/portage/profiles/
    $

... and not listed as the dependency of any package in the Portage tree.

    $ grep --include='*.ebuild' --exclude='mcelog-*' -r app-admin/mcelog /usr/portage/
    $

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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