Bug 2167137

Summary: Crontab leads to the repeated Daily Cleanup in systemd
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Reporter: mx <berlinli222>
Component: crontabsAssignee: Jan Staněk <jstanek>
Status: CLOSED MIGRATED QA Contact: RHEL CS Apps Subsystem QE <rhel-cs-apps-subsystem-qe>
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Description mx 2023-02-05 04:24:57 UTC
Description of problem:

Each time of running a job in crontab will leads to a `Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories`, which is shown in /var/log/messages

Note that there may have many jobs in crontab, some may even run one time per a minute, which will leads the file of /var/log/messages is fulled with `Daily Cleanup` logs. 
That makes this file is !!! not !!! easy !!! to read !!!

Version-Release number of system
rhel 9.0 to 9.1

How to reproduce:
create a each-minute crontab job, and then to view /var/log/messages 


Expected results:
The same as it in rhel8/rehl7, do not loging this `Daily Cleanup` log for crontab

Additional info:
sample log in /var/log/messages
```
Nov 16 08:23:11 hostname systemd[1]: user: Deactivated successfully.
Nov 16 08:23:11 hostname systemd[1]: Stopped User Manager for UID 0.
Nov 16 08:23:11 hostname systemd[1]: Stopping User Runtime Directory /run/user/0...
Nov 16 08:23:11 hostname systemd[1]: run-user-0.mount: Deactivated successfully.
Nov 16 08:23:11 hostname systemd[1]: user-runtime-dir: Deactivated successfully.
Nov 16 08:23:11 hostname systemd[1]: Stopped User Runtime Directory /run/user/0.
Nov 16 08:23:11 hostname systemd[1]: Removed slice User Slice of UID 0.
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[1]: Created slice User Slice of UID 0.
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[1]: Starting User Runtime Directory /run/user/0...
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[1]: Finished User Runtime Directory /run/user/0.
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[1]: Starting User Manager for UID 0...
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[2058053]: Queued start job for default target Main User Target.
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[2058053]: Created slice User Application Slice.
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[2058053]: Mark boot as successful after the user session has run 2 minutes was skipped because of a failed condition check (ConditionUser=!@system).
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[2058053]: Started Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories.
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[2058053]: Reached target Paths.
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[2058053]: Reached target Timers.
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[2058053]: Starting D-Bus User Message Bus Socket...
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[2058053]: PipeWire PulseAudio was skipped because of a failed condition check (ConditionUser=!root).
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[2058053]: Listening on PipeWire Multimedia System Socket.
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[2058053]: Starting Create User's Volatile Files and Directories...
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[2058053]: Finished Create User's Volatile Files and Directories.
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[2058053]: Listening on D-Bus User Message Bus Socket.
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[2058053]: Reached target Sockets.
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[2058053]: Reached target Basic System.
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[2058053]: Reached target Main User Target.
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[2058053]: Startup finished in 114ms.
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[1]: Started User Manager for UID 0.
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[1]: Started Session 1425 of User root.
Nov 16 08:24:01 hostname systemd[1]: session-1425.scope: Deactivated successfully.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[1]: Stopping User Manager for UID 0...
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[2058053]: Activating special unit Exit the Session...
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[2058053]: Stopped target Main User Target.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[2058053]: Stopped target Basic System.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[2058053]: Stopped target Paths.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[2058053]: Stopped target Sockets.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[2058053]: Stopped target Timers.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[2058053]: Stopped Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[2058053]: Closed D-Bus User Message Bus Socket.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[2058053]: Closed PipeWire Multimedia System Socket.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[2058053]: Stopped Create User's Volatile Files and Directories.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[2058053]: Removed slice User Application Slice.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[2058053]: Reached target Shutdown.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[2058053]: Finished Exit the Session.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[2058053]: Reached target Exit the Session.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[1]: user: Deactivated successfully.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[1]: Stopped User Manager for UID 0.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[1]: Stopping User Runtime Directory /run/user/0...
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[1]: run-user-0.mount: Deactivated successfully.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[1]: user-runtime-dir: Deactivated successfully.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[1]: Stopped User Runtime Directory /run/user/0.
Nov 16 08:24:11 hostname systemd[1]: Removed slice User Slice of UID 0.
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[1]: Created slice User Slice of UID 0.
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[1]: Starting User Runtime Directory /run/user/0...
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[1]: Started Session 1428 of User apache.
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[1]: Finished User Runtime Directory /run/user/0.
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[1]: Starting User Manager for UID 0...
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[2058262]: Queued start job for default target Main User Target.
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[2058262]: Created slice User Application Slice.
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[2058262]: Mark boot as successful after the user session has run 2 minutes was skipped because of a failed condition check (ConditionUser=!@system).
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[2058262]: Started Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories.
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[2058262]: Reached target Paths.
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[2058262]: Reached target Timers.
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[2058262]: Starting D-Bus User Message Bus Socket...
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[2058262]: PipeWire PulseAudio was skipped because of a failed condition check (ConditionUser=!root).
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[2058262]: Listening on PipeWire Multimedia System Socket.
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[2058262]: Starting Create User's Volatile Files and Directories...
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[2058262]: Finished Create User's Volatile Files and Directories.
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[2058262]: Listening on D-Bus User Message Bus Socket.
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[2058262]: Reached target Sockets.
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[2058262]: Reached target Basic System.
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[2058262]: Reached target Main User Target.
Nov 16 08:25:01 hostname systemd[2058262]: Startup finished in 116ms.
```

```
# cat /var/log/messages | grep -i daily

Nov 16 00:12:01 hostname systemd[435836]: Started Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories.
Nov 16 00:12:11 hostname systemd[435836]: Stopped Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories.
Nov 16 00:13:01 hostname systemd[435946]: Started Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories.
Nov 16 00:13:12 hostname systemd[435946]: Stopped Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories.
Nov 16 00:14:02 hostname systemd[436081]: Started Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories.
Nov 16 00:14:12 hostname systemd[436081]: Stopped Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories.
Nov 16 00:15:01 hostname systemd[436200]: Started Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories.
Nov 16 00:15:11 hostname systemd[436200]: Stopped Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories.
Nov 16 00:16:01 hostname systemd[436342]: Started Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories.
Nov 16 00:16:11 hostname systemd[436342]: Stopped Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories.
Nov 16 00:17:01 hostname systemd[436454]: Started Daily Cleanup of User's Temporary Directories.
```

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-20 12:40:43 UTC
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