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Chapter 15. Cron jobs

Several repetitive tasks are automatically scheduled and run in Red Hat Update Infrastructure, on the RHUA node in particular.

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Table 15.1. Cron jobs
Job filePurposeFrequencyLog file

/etc/cron.d/rhui-export-repos

export synchronized content

every 5 minutes

/var/log/rhui/rhui-export-repos.log

/etc/cron.d/rhui-purge-upload-dirs

clean up temporary directories from uploads to custom repositories

every 5 minutes

/var/log/rhui/rhui-purge-upload-dirs.log.log

/etc/cron.d/rhui-repo-sync

synchronize repositories, if they are due

every 5 minutes

/var/log/cron (see the note below)

/etc/cron.d/rhui-update-mappings

update the information about available minor versions

hourly, at HH:34

/var/log/rhui/rhui-update-mappings.log

/etc/cron.hourly/synchronize-rhui-subscriptions

check for changes to the entitlement certificate, and import a new one if needed

hourly, at HH:01

/var/log/rhui/rhui-subscription-sync.log

Note

The output is sent to the root user by e-mail instead of the /var/log/cron file if a Mail Transport Agent, such as Postfix, is installed and running on the RHUA. For more information, see Deploying and configuring a Postfix SMTP server.

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