on Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:01:35PM +0000, Vittorio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At home I set up a small woody server working as a proxy, firewall, > router. It stays idle most of the time being used at night only by me > & my daughters. I've noticed that cron(tab (I don't know, it's the > standard installation, anyway!)) starts doing its job every 20 > minutes, which is in my opinion useless and 'consumes' my server hd.
cron itself checks for runnable tasks once a minute.
Standard system jobs run daily, monthly, and weekly, and are found in
the directories /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly, etc.
If you have a job that's running once every 20 minutes, it's likely
something in a user crontab (/var/spool/cron/crontabs), the system
crontab (/etc/crontab), or the system cron job run directory
(/etc/cron.d/). Check here for something running with a specification
of:
*/20 * * * *
8,20,40, * * * * *
4/20 * * * * *
...or similar. That would be: a job running every 20 minutes or at a
specified set of intervals.
Peace.
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