Re: Removing CRONTAB jobs
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:06:38AM -0500, sean finney wrote:
> 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.
>
You could also edit /etc/crontab to change the time cron.daily runs.
See "man 5 crontab"
kent
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