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Re: Removing CRONTAB jobs



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On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:06:38AM -0500, sean finney wrote:
> 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.

A better idea is to change the time at which these jobs are run to
some time that it's not going to generally be a bother in
/etc/crontab.  For best results, change only the hour and make them
match.

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