Am 09.12.2011 00:53, schrieb Cliff Pratt: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> Am 08.12.2011 22:04, schrieb Les Mikesell: >>> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> Am 08.12.2011 21:08, schrieb Cliff Pratt: >>>>> It's a good idea NOT to put stuff in /etc/crontab and NOT to change >>>>> the existing members of /etc/cron.d. It is a good idea NOT to change >>>>> root's crontab. Any of these may get overwritten by maintenance. >>>> >>>> /etc/crontab will NEVER get overwritten >>>> to make it clear: NEVER EVER >>>> >>>> fedora did not overwrite any crontab from FC5 to F15 now because >>>> rpm-packages mark such configurations so the new versions get installed >>>> as .rpmnew >>> >>> Which means the changes those versions would like to have made won't >>> take effect. So it is still best to avoid editing it yourself if you >>> can put your local jobs in one of the other possible places. >> >> which means updates do not randomly change configurations and this >> is good so since it is your job as admin to look if the rpmnew contains >> anything which is interesting for you and if not let your working >> configuration in peace >> > There should be no need to look at the .rpmnew files if you have done > your job as admin properly. why are radnom people try to tell me how i have to do my job without knowing anyting about how i work? no there is no need on the production machine becuase all preparing happens on a dedicated environment with where local and caching repos and build-environment is available and from where all TESTED updates are deployed i do my job properly in making sure that no dumb change of any upstream maintainer is touching a configuration of relevant services so what will you tell me after > 200 ONLINE-dist-upgrades in the last view years on all sort of servers?
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