Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-124 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
It seems that the following Debian commit which introduces a temporary file has an unfortunate side-effect: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-cron/pkg- cron.git;a=commitdiff;h=e61050367866fb1b627e2c004d370914eced70cb Indeed even if cron has nothing to do, a temporary file is always created in /tmp and immediatly deleted. I am trying to reduce the power consumption of my server and this patch had the effect of waking-up the hard-drive every hour. Maybe it is possible to prevent the temporary file creation if cron has nothing to do ? Best regards -- Package-specific info: --- EDITOR: --- /usr/bin/editor: /bin/nano --- /usr/bin/crontab: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 34760 Jul 3 2012 /usr/bin/crontab --- /var/spool/cron: drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Nov 1 2010 /var/spool/cron --- /var/spool/cron/crontabs: drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 Oct 16 2010 /var/spool/cron/crontabs --- /etc/cron.d: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 4 20:56 /etc/cron.d --- /etc/cron.daily: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 15 21:43 /etc/cron.daily --- /etc/cron.hourly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 16 2012 /etc/cron.hourly --- /etc/cron.monthly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 16 2012 /etc/cron.monthly --- /etc/cron.weekly: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 15 21:42 /etc/cron.weekly -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (90, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cron depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii debianutils 4.3.4 ii dpkg 1.16.10 ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libpam-runtime 1.1.3-9 ii libpam0g 1.1.3-9 ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian9 Versions of packages cron recommends: ii exim4 4.80-7 ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.80-7 Versions of packages cron suggests: ii anacron 2.3-19 pn checksecurity <none> ii logrotate 3.8.1-4 Versions of packages cron is related to: pn libnss-ldap <none> pn libnss-ldapd <none> pn libpam-ldap <none> pn libpam-mount <none> pn nis <none> pn nscd <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
