On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:33:50AM +0100, n/a wrote: > I've just set up a firewall for some students, now it's late and i'm still awake and .... > > this machine is making a lot of noise. Are there any crontab jobs i surely should NOT remove ? in general, i think most the crontabs are there for a reason. for example, the find job (probably the noisiest of them all), updates the database that the "locate" command uses for finding stuff. if the noise keeps you up at night, i guess you could disable it, but then don't expect locate to be too helpful in a couple weeks. also, you can change the frequency of any of these jobs by moving them from /etc/cron.daily to /etc/cron.weekly if you really want. hth sean
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