dnf installs cron.hourly

[Steve Gordon]

----- 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).

Steve