Bug 561564

Summary:	sys-fs/mdadm - /etc/cron.weekly/mdadm must be executable
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alexander Tsoy <alexander>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alexander Tsoy 2015-09-26 13:48:30 UTC

/etc/cron.weekly/mdadm must have executable bit set. Currently it is ignored by run-parts and run-crons and thus is not started by the cron daemons (cronie at least).

$ sudo run-parts --test /etc/cron.weekly
$ sudo chmod +x /etc/cron.weekly/mdadm
$ sudo run-parts --test /etc/cron.weekly
/etc/cron.weekly/mdadm

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-09-27 06:03:51 UTC

this is by design.  you have to opt into running the cronjob on your system.

Comment 2 Alexander Tsoy 2015-09-27 13:50:16 UTC

For opt-in it's better to change the default value of AUTOCHECK variable in /etc/default/mdadm to false or just comment it out. Executable bit gets lost after every upgrade/reinstall of mdadm package.

$ grep AUTOCHECK /usr/sbin/checkarray 
 -c|--cron	honour AUTOCHECK setting in /etc/default/mdadm.
if [ $cron = 1 ] && ! is_true ${AUTOCHECK:-false}; then

Comment 3 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-01-28 10:23:25 UTC

commit ab408969c8dae788f667b1c169746e039f5e91ec
Author: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
Date:   Thu Jan 28 11:08:23 2016

    sys-fs/mdadm: Bump to version 3.4

    Marked cronjob as executable (bug #561564) and commented the AUTOCHECK variable
    so people still have to opt in for the autocheck to run.

    Package-Manager: portage-2.2.27
    Signed-off-by: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>