On Monday 09 August 2004 09:04 pm, LinuxMedia wrote: > > 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 > > Maybe this is too general of a question, but trying to route out the > answer seems like to would take a while. Is it common for any of the > distibutions to set up cron jobs that just *have* to run at a certain > time (or maybe *by* a certain period of time)? I'm talking about stuff > that would compamise my system. I currently run SuSE 9.0 Professional. > Should I take on the task of finding out everything I need to learn to > answer this? I just have too many project to deal with. But turning off > cron jobs seems like another good way to eliminate problems while > recording. I'll take any advantage I can take. > > Thanks, > Rocco Cron jobs generally run in the wee hours. Just changing the hour they run to a more convenient time ( the hour spec is 24 hour time) will make life easier. As far as "compromising" you system goes, just killing cron entirely won't cause a breach, but / may fill up and choke things if you 86 log rotation and cleaning /tmp Anything that;s cron'd out of the box is strictly maintenance (log rotation and man page indexing) and will take a few months to cause a problem, unless you root partition is tight on space.
