Package: cupsys Version: 1.1.23-15 Severity: wishlist cupsys generates a coockie (cert) for local clients and for cgi-bin to backend communication in /etc/cups/certs/, which currently is a symlink to /var/lib/cups/certs/, which normally is located on a hard disk drive.
The default "RootCertDuration" is 300 seconds, so each 5 minutes that file is accessed and replaced by a new file, preventing the disk from spinning down on an otherwise idle computer, of even worse, spins up the disk regularly. Sadly, this was one cause which destroyed 16+ drives in several workstations. cupsys needs to run, so automatic printer discovery works on those workstations and notebooks. Since the file does not need to survive a reboot, please consider moving that directory under /var/run, which will be put on a tmpfs filesystem in Debian hopefully "real soon". If you don't want to do the move now, please at least don't package the /etc/cups/certs symlink and create that link instead in postinst, if it doesn't exist. Currently each time I install a new security update, that link gets replaces again and again with on pointing to /var/lib/cups/certs. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (989, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.1-walker Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]