On Monday 09 August 2004 02:24 pm, Jack O'Quin wrote: > Rick B <zajelo3@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > 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. > > The "best" solution is probably to define a special runlevel in your > inittab for doing critical audio work. In that runlevel cron and most > of the other system daemons would be inactive. Switching back to your > default runlevel would start them all up again. > Have a cigar. ;) > The problem with this approach is that various distributions manage > runlevels differently, and it's generally rather clumsy to set up. The default runlevel is set in /etc/inittab on any box with sysvinit (RH,Debian,SuSE,Gentoo,Mandrake, ad nauseum) but as far as setting up the actual services in the runlevel there is no shortage of tools. Webmin has a runlevel editor, KDE has a runlevel editor, I don't see it in the menus, but GNOME had one in the past. There is usually a vendor supplied script called either rc.d-update or update-rc.d (those are the actual variations I've seen, not a memory lapse) for managing the links via the command line.
