On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 10:28 -0700, Greg Bailey wrote:
On 08/29/2011 09:49 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us 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.
Paul.