On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 4:36 PM Larry Linder
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> Cron is now broken so you can't scehedule reliable backups.
>
> This got broken in SL 6.9 worked in SL 6.5.
> The reason is that it is looking for files from yum.  Whot does yum have
> to do with cron I heav yet to figure it out.

Since you've not published any error messages, no one can reasonably
save you. RHEL 6 and SL 6 are no longer supported, except that you can
pay for "RHEL 6 ELS", or extended life support. Time to update.

> Disk like - we date code our disks and when they are over 5000 hr.  We
> swap them out and give toss them.  We have had replaced a bunch of disk
> at one time and 3 years later they all died within a month.  They are
> typically on 24 / 7.  We stagger the start up dates by 6 mo.

That... wounds ike the old IBM "Deskstar" problem, known as the "IBM
Deathstar" issue, where thousands of consumer grade disks failed after
a specific amount of wear and took out cheap RAID clusters around the
world. But staggered over six months.... that sounds like you had a
cooling problem in your racks.

Don't blame your hardware failures on SL or RHEL, unless they were
doing something really stupid like nightly filling all your disks with
zeroes to "optimeze" themselves, which is not a default behavior.

> My advise if you don't want to be forever the support team - buy a MAC.

Apple provides no server support. Zero, zip, nada, end of sentence.
They support only consumer devices, and those are quite expensive.
Don't conflate drive failures with distribution issues, and if you
want OS commercial support, guess what? Get some RHEL licenses,
because that kind of work costs money.

> The people I have helped get on to a Linux system are not OS smart and I
> spend a lot of time helping them out.  It also looks like it may be a
> cradel to grave problem.

You were upset, so I'll not comment on your spelling errors except to
say maybe you could have used a break before writing this note?

> I money is problem there are a lot free Gov. computers available.  They
> are not free its just that you and I have to pay for them with our
> taxes.

Well.... yes. Supporting critical, complex, or consumer abused systems
is something people get paid for.

> I set my wife up with a Linux box and support is seconds away 24/7.  She
> is smart & industrious and just uses mail, OpenOffice, and a photo
> archive for the grand kids pictures.  That is if I expect dinner on
> time.
> Have friends and relatives buy a MAC.
> Then you can plead - ignorance.

If you've the spare $1000 to buy a Mac of equivalent power, especially
including those very expensive replacements, and don't need
server-grade dual power supplies, hot-swap hard drives, high density
blade installations, or support for commercial grade mail servers or
AutoCAD.

Deliberately pleading ignorance to avoid helping your wife does not
sound like a positive relationship, though I've heard of other people
pulling this stunt.

> Regards
> Larry Linder