cron.daily jobs needed?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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?

Well if we were running fedora and running updates daily might not be
fast enough :).

>> prelink - we don't start apps that often - they're mostly
>> long-running.

If I understand prelink correctly, it really only needs to be run
after an RPM update. We could move this to a monthly cron or a check
that if rpm -V shows prelink problems it is run.

>> 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?

I think they get pulled in from some dependency chain. Ah yes.. mediawiki

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>> tmpwatch - good to have
>>
>> Something to consider revising after the freeze?
>>
>
>
> I agree with all of the above assessments.
>
>        -Mike
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