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.