[CentOS] rpm and /etc/cron.daily/rpm

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Mon Aug 29 16:49:18 UTC 2011


Greg Bailey wrote:
>   On 08/29/2011 08:54 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> The rpm package used to provide
>> /etc/cron.daily/rpm
>> /etc/logrotate.d/rpm
>>
>> I see /usr/lib/rpm/rpm.log and rpm.daily, which looks like they're
>> intended for that purpose. Anyone have any idea why they're not in
>> cron.daily and logrotate.d?
>
> Looks like those files are now provided by the "rpm-cron" package in
> RHEL 6 / CentOS 6.

Thanks, Greg. Though it seems really dumb and pointless to make a separate
package just to run something that's already in the rpm package.

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