On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:58:33 -0400 (EDT) Steve Gordon <sgordon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> > > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxx> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Daniel P. Berrange > > > > <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > 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 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
