[CentOS] rpm and /etc/cron.daily/rpm
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 17:42:44 UTC 2011
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.
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Les Mikesell
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