dnf installs cron.hourly

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:58:33 -0400 (EDT)
Steve Gordon <sgordon at redhat.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora"
> > <devel at 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 at volny.cz>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Daniel P. Berrange
> > > > <berrange at 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).
> 

To be fair - none of those call out to the network.

they all act on things locally.


-sv