From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com>
To: "Development discussions related to Fedora"
<devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 11:48:41 AM
Subject: Re: dnf installs cron.hourly
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:45:03AM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Miloslav Trmač <mitr(a)volny.cz>
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Daniel P. Berrange
> > <berrange(a)redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Users shouldn't have to go searching out that kind of thing in
> > > a
> > > separate package IMHO, it could just be part of stock yum
> > > install.
> > > If it needs to be optional a config param would suffice, rather
> > > than the big hammer of installing/uninstalling extra RPM to
> > > enable/
> > > disable a feature.
> >
> > Yeah, we don't generally do configuration by package
> > installation/uninstallation.
> >
>
> More to the point,
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Starting_services_by_default
That's about starting system services by default though, so isn't
directly relevant to the question of whether cron jobs are allowed
to be enabled by default. Do we have any package docs about cron
job enablement ? I couldn't find any in my search attempts.
Daniel
The list of files sitting in my /etc/cron.*/ directories would certainly indicate that
even if there is such a rule it is being ignored. Not that I necessarily have a problem
with that given the jobs that are there (mlocate, cups, logrotate, man-db are all examples
I don't remember setting up myself).
Steve