Re: periodic daily takes a very long time to run (14-stable)

From: Guido Falsi <mad_at_madpilot.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 21:54:57 UTC 
On 27/10/23 19:09, void wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 05:38:58PM +0200, Guido Falsi wrote:
> 
>> If this script is the culprit is easily tested, disable it and see. I 
>> guess you can stay a few days without checking for negative permissions.
> 
> I'm unsure how to disable that one script from periodic. but I think
> that what you recommend following it is better:
> 
>> Also, $MP is defined in such a way to exclude filesystems that set 
>> "nosuid/noexec". I do happen to have those setup for my ccache 
>> directory so it is skipping that.
> 
> doing this right now. thanks for the tip.
> 
> BTW the same initial symptoms happening again even after
> disabling daily_clean. I'll retry periodic daily after
> setting nosuid/noexec/nodev on ccache dir
> 
> Is there any benefit from setting a recordsize smaller than 128k there?
> 

You can disable it by adding:

security_status_neggrpperm_enable="NO"

to /etc/periodic.conf.

You can also add:

security_status_neggrpperm_period="weekly"

for example to make it run weekly.

The dafaults that can be overridden in periodic.conf are all listed in 
/etc/defaults/periodic.conf

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>