On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Tom Horsley<tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Prior to fedora 11 anacron was a separate service. I could just > disable it and get rid of its incredibly annoying "helpful" > behavior which was never under any circumstances actually > helpful. > > In fedora 11, there doesn't appear to be an anacron service > to disable, yet it is still every bit as annoying as always. > > Is there a tutorial anywhere on just how the devil I can > get rid of anacron and just have my cron jobs run when they > are actually supposed to run or simply not run at all > if the system is down? > > Do I have to remove anacron then manually supply my own > /etc/crontab and scripts to run the normal cron.daily, > cron.weekly, etc. jobs? > > Is there a /etc/sysconfig/anacron file I where can set > ANACRON_DONT_HELP_ME="yes" to make anacron never try to > do anything? If there isn't one, shouldn't there be? > I think removing "/etc/cron.d/0hourly" should have the same effect as disabling the service used to. Of course then none of your jobs in cron.daily or cron.weekly will ever be run. A less drastic approach would be to remove the jobs in cron.daily and cron.weekly that are causing problems (presumably prelink or mlocate?) Regards, Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
