[Bug 1433] Cron generate a lot of mail to root between 06:00 and 07:00. One message (11MB) for each client

[drift@skolelinux.org]

http://bugs.skolelinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1433





--- Comment #5 from Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>  2010-02-01 16:31:57 ---
Here is a tested patch, disabling all the currently installed cron jobs
except the ones we want to have running.

Index: sbin/ltsp-make-client
===================================================================
--- sbin/ltsp-make-client       (revision 62414)
+++ sbin/ltsp-make-client       (working copy)
@@ -430,6 +430,37 @@
     in_target update-rc.d ltsp_local_mount start 01 3 .
 fi

+disable_cronjob() {
+    for jobname in $@ ; do
+       for crondir in /etc/cron.d /etc/cron.daily /etc/cron.hourly \
+           /etc/cron.monthly /etc/cron.weekly ; do
+           job="$target$crondir/$jobname"
+           if [ -x "$job" ] ; then
+               mv "$job" "${job}~disabled"
+           fi
+       done
+    done
+}
+
+# Disable the cron jobs that should not be running on a diskless
+# workstation.  Keep rwhod, shutdown-at-night and sitesummary-client.
+disable_cronjob \
+    apt \
+    aptitude \
+    bsdmainutils \
+    cvs \
+    debian-edu-config \
+    desktop-profiles \
+    etcinsvk \
+    exim4-base \
+    htdig \
+    man-db \
+    mlocate \
+    ntp \
+    popularity-contest \
+    scrollkeeper \
+    standard
+
 append_if_missing() {
     file="$1"
     pattern="$2"

After talking to Holger, I have commited it to trunk, and if I understand
it correctly it will not be in the first stable release r0 but might make
it to r1.


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