If you stop anacron/cron then your system will not be able to perform essential maintenance. Your log files will fill up up to infinity, your temporary files will not be erased, and your system will not perform any security checks.
What is the problem with having it running? derek On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 7:20 am, Noah Hicks wrote: > I need to know how to get anacron to stop running as often as it seems to > be. I have found the task file in the /etc dir but I can't see how to > modify it and the man page is hard for me to understand. Could anyone tell > me how to do this? Unless there is some task I need it to do, I would like > to get it to cease completely. Can I just remove the cron.daily and > cron.weekly files? This is what I have now: > > [noah@localhost etc]$ cat anacrontab > # /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron > > # See anacron(8) and anacrontab(5) for details. > > SHELL=/bin/sh > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > > # These entries are useful for a Mandrake system. > 1 5 cron.daily run-parts /etc/cron.daily > 7 10 cron.weekly run-parts /etc/cron.weekly > 30 15 cron.monthly run-parts /etc/cron.monthly > > > > Thanks > Noah
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