#10247 NORM 10.1.2: disable various anacron tasks

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#10247: disable various anacron tasks
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 Reporter:  dsd     |                 Owner:  dsd          
     Type:  defect  |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal  |             Milestone:  10.1.2       
Component:  distro  |               Version:  not specified
 Keywords:          |           Next_action:  review       
 Verified:  0       |   Deployment_affected:               
Blockedby:          |              Blocking:               
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 Noticed in the field that an 8.2.1 XO-1 was running particularly slowly
 and top showed some stuff happening with RPM.

 Turns out that cron.daily creates a list of packages installed in the
 system. And this bug is still present in 10.1.2.

 While exploring I found that we are also doing a lot of other pointless
 stuff scheduled.

 I propose marking these files as non-executable:
 {{{
 /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
 /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis
 /etc/cron.daily/mlocate
 /etc/cron.daily/readahead
 /etc/cron.daily/rpm
 /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
 /etc/cron.weekly/99-raid-check
 /etc/cron.monthly/readahead-monthly.cron
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10247>
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