[CentOS] rpm and /etc/cron.daily/rpm
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Mon Aug 29 17:35:33 UTC 2011
On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 10:28 -0700, Greg Bailey wrote:
> On 08/29/2011 09:49 AM, m.roth at 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.
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