Florin Andrei: On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 06:55, Dave Griffiths wrote: >> Before the gig I went through my cron jobs commenting them all out just in >> case. slocate is particually annoying - I guess most people disable this >> anyway - even with jack using such a large buffer, all the disk access caused >> problems. > >slocate is always among the first packages i remove after installing a >system. Have no use for it, and it is very annoying. I do a more general approach; turn off all cron-jobs if anyone is logged in. After installation, this script is run: " if grep "run-parts " >/dev/null /etc/crontab ; then cp -f /etc/crontab /etc/crontab.org sed s/run-parts\ /run-parts2\ / </etc/crontab.org >/etc/crontab echo "crontab changed" fi if grep "run-parts " >/dev/null /etc/anacrontab ; then cp -f /etc/anacrontab /etc/anacrontab.org sed s/run-parts\ /run-parts2\ / </etc/anacrontab.org >/etc/anacrontab echo "anacrontab changed" fi " and /usr/bin/run-parts2 looks like this: " #!/bin/bash if ! ps -A |grep ssh-agent ; then run-parts $@ fi " At least this works for fedora core 1. Don't know about other distributions. --