on a RH system use service crond stop run your audio apps service crond start On most other ditributions use (or RH) /etc/rc.d/init.d/crond stop run your audio apps /etc/rc.d/init.d/crond start Jan On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 11:54, Rick B wrote: > Hi all, > Is there a way to keep cron jobs from running while doing audio > work? I mean heaven forbid I'm doing something at 4am and cron wants to > prelink and update the database. > > Rick B >