Re: System Slows Down
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 11:44:38AM +0200, Barak Korren wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:52:52AM -0700, Didier Caamano wrote:
> >>And how could I do this?, or better, where is the this cron-tab?
> >
> >This is where locate comes in handy, BTW. Typing "locate crontab"
> >gives you all the filenames on the system named crontab.
> >
> >It's at /etc/crontab. I strongly discourage you from removing the
> >default entries. If you do, just comment them out by adding a #
> >before the line rather than deleting it, since eventually you'll
> >probably decide that these tasks should run.
>
> 1. AFAIK, system-wide, package-installed cronjobs are in configutred in
> Sys-V style in the /etc/cron.* directories and not in a standard user
> crontab file.
... and said scripts are run via run-parts(8) which is called by
scripts called in /etc/crontab. Have you bothered to examine the
contents of /etc/crontab? If the first three run-parts entries in
/etc/crontab are removed, the relevant scripts in /etc/cron.{daily,
weekly,monthly} will _never_ be run.
> 2. The right way to configure crontab it to use the contab (1) command.
I prefer crontab(1) :-) contab has some criminal connotations.
However, you can't configure /etc/crontab or its subordinate
/etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} scripts with crontab(1); you'll have
to use $EDITOR.
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