I always turn off crond before I start doing any serious recording. I also turn off syslogd and anything else that can cause a problem. None of this will compromise your system. I set up a script to turn everything off and one to turn everything on. Qjackctl has slots to run these. Jan On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 20:04, 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 >
