Comment 2 for bug 1550823

I can confirm that checkarray is broken out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 16.04 due to this issue. So, periodic checks of the RAID array don't happen unless I do my own scheduling and avoid checkarray, or else repair checkarray itself using one of the workarounds here...

I changed my checkarray script to explicitly use bash, but next time I upgrade this package, the changes will be lost unless this gets fixed... My change to use bash instead made checkarray start doing something useful...

The suggest at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787950 to use cat instead of read is a good one, and only a one-line change. (Preferably without waiting for Debian upstream to fix it?)