Re: Ghost cronjob

From	Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Ghost cronjob
Date	2021-05-04 21:30 +0200
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On Ma, 04 mai 21, 19:50:27, Mart van de Wege wrote:
> David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > On Tue 04 May 2021 at 17:06:50 (+0200), Mart van de Wege wrote:
> >> 
> >> Surely packaging a system timer file like that should not be done? It
> >> should be at the discretion of the admin to create one if they want to
> >> run btrbk on a schedule.
> >
> > I think this has been discussed in the past, and that installing a
> > package is generally seen as meaning that you want it to run: Debian
> > therefore tries to supply a reasonable and secure configuration.
> >
> But that's not applicable in this case. btrbk can be run standalone or
> from a cronjob/timer, but the exact time someone wants to run their
> backups, or even if they want them run periodically at all, is not a
> decision you can make for them.
> 
> Of course an argument can be made that without edits to the default
> btrbk.conf file btrbk won't run anyway, so configuring the timer is part
> of configuring your backup strategy. I still think that supplying a
> system timer is wrong here.

Feel free to contact the Maintainer about it.

In any case, it probably makes sense to at least mention this in 
NEWS.Debian, especially if the package previously shipped a cron job.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-03 09:10 +0200
  Re: Ghost cronjob <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-03 09:20 +0200
    Re: Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-03 10:00 +0200
      Re: Ghost cronjob <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-03 11:30 +0200
        Re: Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-03 12:10 +0200
  Re: Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-03 09:20 +0200
  Re: Ghost cronjob David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-05-03 16:50 +0200
    Re: Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-03 18:40 +0200
  Re: Ghost cronjob Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-05-03 18:50 +0200
    Re: Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-03 20:20 +0200
      Re: Ghost cronjob Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-05-03 20:40 +0200
        Re: Ghost cronjob <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-03 21:40 +0200
        Re: Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-03 22:00 +0200
          Re: Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-04 08:50 +0200
            Re: Ghost cronjob Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2021-05-04 15:50 +0200
              Re: Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-04 17:10 +0200
                Re: Ghost cronjob David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-05-04 18:10 +0200
                Re: Ghost cronjob Mart van de Wege <mart@vdwege.eu> - 2021-05-04 20:00 +0200
                Re: Ghost cronjob Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-05-04 21:30 +0200
                Re: Ghost cronjob David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-05-05 04:50 +0200
                Re: Ghost cronjob l0f4r0@tuta.io - 2021-05-08 10:20 +0200
                Re: Ghost cronjob Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-05-08 12:00 +0200

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