Bug 919311

Summary:	running /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch spins up drive
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Peter Backes <rtc>
Component:	logwatch	Assignee:	Jan Synacek <jsynacek>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	18	CC:	frank, jsynacek, richardfearn, varekova
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Description Peter Backes 2013-03-07 22:09:41 EST

Description of problem:
since about a week or two, the automatic (or a manual) run of /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch spins up disks that have no mounted partitions and that have been put to sleep with hdparm -y

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
logwatch-7.4.0-23.20130102svn127.fc18.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. add disk
2. put disk to sleep with eg hdparm -y /dev/sdb
3. run /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch
  
Actual results:
disk spins up

Expected results:
disk status unaffected

Comment 1 Peter Backes 2013-03-09 01:07:25 EST

apparently caused by mdadm --examine --scan being invoked in /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/mdadm

Comment 2 Peter Backes 2013-03-09 01:18:29 EST

Workaround: yum downgrade logwatch

It currently downgrades to 7.4.0-18.20120619svn110.fc18.noarch which has no /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/mdadm

Comment 3 Peter Backes 2013-03-09 01:42:06 EST

Filed upstream bug: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3607400&group_id=312875&atid=1316824

Comment 4 Peter Backes 2013-06-21 15:17:46 EDT

Better workaround: Append the following line to /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf

Service = "-mdadm"

Comment 5 Jan Synacek 2013-06-25 03:15:25 EDT

(In reply to Peter Backes from comment #4)
> Better workaround: Append the following line to
> /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf
> 
> Service = "-mdadm"

Not a workaround, it's just a matter of configuration. Closing this as NOTABUG.