Package: man-db Version: 2.5.9-4 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi,
/etc/cron.daily/man-db has this snippet:
# expunge old catman pages which have not been read in a week
if [ -d /var/cache/man ]; then
cd /
if ! dpkg-statoverride --list /var/cache/man >/dev/null 2>&1; then
chown -R man /var/cache/man || true # just in case
fi
…
The chown bit there will needlessly set the owner to man, even if all
the files already have the correct owner.
Could you instead do this?
find /var/cache/man ! -owner man -print0 | xargs -r0 chown man || true
It's a small optimisation, but it would eliminate useless I/Os.
thanks,
iustin
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ii less 436-1 pager program similar to more
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ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-2 WWW browsable pager with excellent
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