Actually MRTG may be used to monitor not only the network statistic, but also the dynamic and history of any values which may be produced by the user's program and given to the input of MRTG. For example, it is often used to monitor the statistics of load average values. So you should check with you users (if any) and disable the programs only if they are not installed in crontab by some user. Alexey Fadyushin. Brainbench MVP for Linux http://www.brainbench.com > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Dwerryhouse > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 12:51 PM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: disable cron job?? > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:10:46AM +0800, mcclnx mcc wrote: > > mrtg -- run every 5 minutes > > sa1 -- run every 10 minutes > > > > Can I disable those tow con jobs? What problem or disavvantage will > happen > > if I disable it? > > sa1 is part of the system accounting; it logs what commands are being > run (and the results of this can be seen with the 'lastcomm' command). > If you disable it, you won't have that information, but it won't cause > any problems otherwise. > > mrtg is a network traffic monitoring tool. The cron job is used to poll > various network devices for statistics; if no-one else set up the > application on that machine, then chances are the cron job is just there > by default, and you can remove it safely... > > Cheers, > > Paul > > -- > Paul Dwerryhouse | PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 > ======================================================================== > Using Linux's ethernet bridge support: > http://nepotismia.com/linux/bridge/ > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
