On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Always Learning <centos at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com