conf/108611: An obsolete nice(1) syntax is left in etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate.

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Jan 31 18:12:04 UTC 2007


On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 06:00:55PM +0000, Remko Lodder wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR conf/108611; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Remko Lodder <remko at FreeBSD.org>
> To: TAOKA Fumiyoshi <fmysh at iijmio-mail.jp>
> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: conf/108611: An obsolete nice(1) syntax is left in	etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate.
> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:02:14 +0100
> 
>  TAOKA Fumiyoshi wrote:
>  > 	An obsolete nice(1) syntax is left in etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate.
>  > 
>  >> How-To-Repeat:
>  >> Fix:
>  > 
>  > Index: 310.locate
>  > ===================================================================
>  > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate,v
>  > retrieving revision 1.6
>  > diff -u -r1.6 310.locate
>  > --- 310.locate	14 Sep 2000 17:19:13 -0000	1.6
>  > +++ 310.locate	31 Jan 2007 16:04:30 -0000
>  > @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
>  >  	chmod 644 $locdb || rc=3
>  >  
>  >  	cd /
>  > -	echo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb | nice -5 su -fm nobody || rc=3
>  > +	echo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb | nice -n 5 su -fm nobody || rc=3
>  >  	chmod 444 $locdb || rc=3;;
>  >  
>  >      *)  rc=0;;
>  > 
>  
>  It is depricated, not obsolete:

"Deprecated" means "obsolete and may be removed at some point in the
future".  The submitter is correct that deprecated features should not
be used in current code.

Kris


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