On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:07:48 +0200 Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - Another possibility might be a group of people having popcon and > something like cron-apt installed at the same time; if both cronjobs > trigger at approximately the same time, that would greatly increase > the chance that popcon is indeed trying to read the dpkg database at > the time when cron-apt is rewriting it. Oh yes, another cron job for dpkg/apt: apt-cacher or apt-cacher-ng which does a daily download of package lists and checks for expired packages in the cache. So I think Wouter is right and there are more packages that do automatic package list updates than one might think at first. Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org The C Shore: http://www.wightman.ca/~cshore
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