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Description of problem: Anacron is a useful program on enterprise always-on servers. When you schedule downtime on an enterprise always-on server, you want to be able to rely on anacron running the cron jobs you missed during the downtime. Not including anacron in taroon is not acceptable. Please add it back. Thanks. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
FWIW, I agree with this.
Strongly Agreed. Please put it back. Also, if you are going to remove some package common courtesy dictates that you mark it deprecated for one distro release, and THEN remove it.
Agreed on both comments.
Anacron is useful.
The argument was given that anacron is not needed on enterprise, always-on servers. That argument cannot hold water when you consider anaconda was removed from the Taroon WS beta as well. 3.0WS installations will be on workstation machines, not enterprise, always-on machines. anacron needs to be added back to taroon, period.
*IF* the machine is always on, then we won't run anacron, and including it won't hurt anything. However if the IF turns out to not always be true, then we honestly need it. Red Hat need not shoot itself in this way.
It's perfectly reasonable to run Taroon WS on a laptop which is definitely not "always on". Actually, I run Taroon ES on a laptop since I need some of the server packages that are not otherwise present. Anacron on a laptop is not so much a good idea as an out and out requirement. Please put it back.
anacron is also listed as part of the RH133 course, which is labeled as "Updated for building skills on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3!"
The information at http://www.redhat.com/training/rhce/courses/rh133_content.html has not yet been updated to reflect the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 changes to the curriculum. The appropriate folks will be notified that that page still needs to be updated. I believe that anacron coverage was dropped for now since it is not shipped with RHEL 3. (I'd like to see anacron come back as well.)
According to the information at the page http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/step- guide/s1-managing-locating.html, we CAN run anacron and MUST refer to the man page on anacron. But we have no anacron package in the installation CD, nor can we get the ones through the RHN channel.
Anacron will be added in RHEL 3 Update 3. A beta package is now available to RHEL subscribers for testing via Red Hat Network: https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/packages/details.pxt?pid=248606
Thank you!