cron.daily jobs needed?

[Mike McGrath]

On Mon, 17 May 2010, Matt Domsch wrote:

> Now that I've knocked out a few MM bugs, other interesting trends are
> emerging.
>
> Why are the app* servers running all these in cron.daily?  The
> combination of these take approximately 2 hours, and show up very
> noticibly on the collectd graphs.  I'm not sure which ones are the
> most IO-intensive for that duration - I haven't caught it during the
> run to watch.
>
> logrotate - arguably necessary, unless this is done centrally instead?
>
> makewhatis.cron - we don't have many manpages on the app servers, and
> don't change them that often.  Daily?  Really?
>
> prelink - we don't start apps that often - they're mostly
> long-running.
>
> rkhunter - arguably necessary
>
> rpm - again, daily?  Unclear what this serves us.  It's just a file
> listing all the RPMs installed at that moment in time.
>
> tetex.cron - looks like it'd go fast, so no big deal.  But why do we
> have tetex-fonts installed on the app servers?
>
> tmpwatch - good to have
>
> Something to consider revising after the freeze?
>


I agree with all of the above assessments.

	-Mike