Re: Remove cronjob is safe?
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, andreas [iso-8859-1] pålsson wrote:
> My logfiles are filled by the line "/USR/SBIN/CRON[7637]: (root) CMD
> (test -f /proc/modules && /sbin/rmmod -a)".
> And I find it be unnecessary to run any commands related to modules
> since I have no modules and no module-support in my kernel.
>
> Since "cron.d" seem to be something debian-specific my question is: Is
> it safe to delete the "/etc/cron.d/modutils", or is there a recommended
> debian-way to inactivate cronjobs that are not used?
You could delete that file with no immediate problems. However, that file
is contained in the modutils package, so it might be replaced when you
update that package.
Since you don't use modules at all, couldn't you remove the entire
modutils package?
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