Bug 1919174

Summary:	Option to remove the self-installed ReaR cron task
Product:	Red Hat OpenStack	Reporter:	Juan Larriba <jlarriba>
Component:	tripleo-ansible	Assignee:	Juan Larriba <jlarriba>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Nathan Weinberg <nweinber>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:	Joanne O'Flynn <joflynn>
Priority:	high
Version:	16.1 (Train)	CC:	elicohen, jamsmith, jbadiapa, myadla, nweinber
Target Milestone:	z5	Keywords:	Triaged
Target Release:	16.1 (Train on RHEL 8.2)
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:	tripleo-ansible-0.5.1-1.20201114030852.el8ost	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	This update prevents Relax and Recover (ReaR) from automatically creating an unrequested backup. Previously, ReaR automatically created the cron file /etc/cron.d/rear, which ran a backup at 1:30 AM. This update prevents the automatic creation of the cron job.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2021-05-26 11:43:47 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1916851, 1921668

Description Juan Larriba 2021-01-22 10:17:41 UTC

As stated in bug 1911535, ReaR rpm installation creates an /etc/cron.d/rear file automatically. This cron programming runs a backup at 1:30 in the morning, and it is generally a non desired behaviour.

Comment 1 Eliad Cohen 2021-03-01 17:27:57 UTC

Why is this  ON_QA?

Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2021-05-26 11:43:47 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Important: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1.6 (tripleo-ansible) security update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2119