The reason why sometimes (on some installations) no error is reported, is of course if the 'priority' given with -p is a current valid process ID. Which means that this process is changed by ionice instead of calling updatedb.
-- /etc/cron.daily/find has wrong ionice parameter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159472 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs