On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Always Learning centos@u61.u22.net wrote:
I see /usr/lib/rpm/rpm.log and rpm.daily, which looks like they're intended for that purpose. Anyone have any idea why they're not in cron.daily and logrotate.d?
Looks like:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500722
has the rationale...
Quote "rpm requires crontabs in order to drop a cron job in. crontabs requires cronie, which requires an smtp server. If it weren't for this, we'd have a better chance at a smtp server less and cron less system."
SMTP on a server seems an ideal transmission method for warning messages of cron failures etc. Can not understand the logic of stripping the 'rpm' cron part from the cron system. Its only a few bytes on systems of hundreds or thousands of GB.
I got the impression a long time ago that the people working on fedora didn't like unix much and wanted to turn the system into something more like a single-user toy with really, really fast boot time instead of having a standard set of services that you could always depend on.