/etc/cron.daily/find should be deleted when upgrading or it should use ionice -n instead of -p

[Ari Mujunen]

Binary package hint: findutils

In a fresh install of Intrepid there is no '/etc/cron.daily/find' file. However, when upgrading from Hardy to Intrepid, a previously existing '/etc/cron.daily/find' is retained (and even included in /var/lib/dpkg/info/findutils.list which I find strange).

The problem with the retained '/etc/cron.daily/find' file is that it uses the 'ionice' command with a wrong argument '-p', supplying a scheduling-class specific priority value as an argument of '-p' which takes actually a PID value. The correct option would be '-n', and this is correct in the Intrepid '/etc/cron.daily/locate' coming from the locate package.

The use of '-p' makes '/etc/cron.daily/find' fail with 'exit 1' randomly, depending on if there is a process with a PID equal to a priority value running in the system.

If you purge 'findutils' from an upgraded Intrepid system and then reinstall it, the '/etc/cron.daily/find' file disappears and all is well. However, this should probably happen automatically when findutils is upgraded.

Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
Linux version 2.6.27-7-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu11) ) #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008
findutils: 4.4.0-2ubuntu3
locate: 4.4.0-2ubuntu3
both come from source package findutils

[wesley fitzgerald (wood45log)]

thank,s if you could give me a hand with this problem i have ahackker as well and even a root kit on board i tried ti seebuzilla but to no avail so if you could help i would be very apreciated

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[François Marier (fmarier)]

I believe that the right fix here is to simply delete /etc/cron.daily/find since it's not present in a fresh Precise install.

Of course, the package should ideally be fixed so that it deletes this old file when it sees it...

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

Wheee this bug manifested on my server after I upgraded Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04 to 14.04.