On Wednesday, September 2, 2020 6:27:22 AM MST Michael Catanzaro wrote:
On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 1:09 pm, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> wrote:
> As for crond and atd, I think we can keep them installed by default,
> but inactive. I.e. make them socket activated or path activated, so
> that
> they are only started if people install actual crontabs or run at.
I don't think they're really needed because any packaged service that
requires them could just add an appropriate Requires. And if you're
trying to run a custom unpackaged service, it shouldn't be hard to
install.
https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/183
> We would also need to convert any packaged cronfiles into systemd
> timers. But it seems that this is already mostly done. On my machine,
> /etc/cron.weekly/98-zfs-fuse-scrub is the only real crontab entry.
I also noticed that yesterday:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1874553
Michael
Michael,
What's meant is that people are still setting up scheduled tasks by running
`crontab -e` and similar.
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John M. Harris, Jr.