Bug 202821 - should have quiet mode for cron jobs
Summary: should have quiet mode for cron jobs
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: up2date
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Pradeep Kilambi
QA Contact: Ken Reilly
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-08-16 16:31 UTC by Russell Coker
Modified: 2012-06-20 16:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-06-20 16:19:36 UTC
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Description Russell Coker 2006-08-16 16:31:38 UTC
The default configuration of a rackspace server is to have a file 
named /etc/cron.d/rs_rhncheck with the following contents:
0 2 * * * root /usr/sbin/up2date --nox -u

This means that on most days I receive an email telling me that "All packages 
are currently up to date" which is of little value and is annoying when there 
are multiple machines doing it.

I believe that we need a quiet mode to instruct up2date to not display 
anything (IE skip the email) when it finds nothing to do.

Please include this in RHEL 4.5 as I expect that Rackspace and many other 
providers will be running RHEL 4.x machines for their customers for a long 
time.

Comment 1 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-04-12 01:06:32 UTC
User bnackash's account has been closed

Comment 3 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 16:19:36 UTC
Thank you for submitting this issue for consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The release for which you requested us to review is now End of Life. 
Please See https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

If you would like Red Hat to re-consider your feature request for an active release, please re-open the request via appropriate support channels and provide additional supporting details about the importance of this issue.


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