Bug 2083301

Summary: deprecation of ReaR crontab
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Pavel Cahyna <pcahyna>
Component: rearAssignee: Pavel Cahyna <pcahyna>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: CS System Management SST QE <rhel-cs-system-management-subsystem-qe>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact: Šárka Jana <sjanderk>
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 8.6CC: ovasik, pcahyna, sjanderk
Target Milestone: rc   
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Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Deprecated Functionality
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.The ReaR crontab has been deprecated The `/etc/cron.d/rear` crontab from the `rear` package has been deprecated in RHEL 8 and will not be available in RHEL 9. The crontab checks every night whether the disk layout has changed, and runs `rear mkrescue` command if a change happened. If you require this functionality, after an upgrade to RHEL 9, configure periodic runs of ReaR manually.
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Last Closed: 2023-11-09 07:28:49 UTC Type: Bug
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Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2023-11-09 07:28:49 UTC
After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.