Ok thanks Derek, that helps my understanding alot. I got that line in crontab. It shouldn't be as much of a problem. I wonder if anyone could make this program run in smaller parts over the course of a whole day. Wouldn't that make it much more inconspicuous on the system? oh well thanks for the tips -Noah
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 14:16, Derek Jennings wrote: > You can see the daily jobs in /etc/cron.daily > > Whenever you install an RPM which needs 'maintenance' a file gets dropped > in here for the daily processing. > > For example logrotate will compress your old logs and delete the oldest > entries. It will cause a bit of hard drive activity, but not a vast amount > (unless you have big logs) > > The weekly job slocate.cron will cause a lot of harddrive activity, because > it compiles a database of every file on your hard drive for use by the > slocate command. (If you have it installed) > > The daily msec job is checking on the file permissions of all your system > files, so that could cause a bit of activity. > > > If you find the daily job annoying, why not set it to run at a more > convenient time? > It is only a matter of editing the /etc/crontab file. > For instance in this line > > 56 10 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.daily > > All the scripts in location /etc/cron.daily are scheduled to run at 10:56 > every day > > If you want a nice GUI to setup cron jobs, then there is one in webmin. > > > derek > > On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:15 pm, Noah Hicks wrote: > > Well the only problem I'm having is that when it's running, it slows the > > system down. There's a lot of HD activity and the programs I'm running > > slow down significatly. This can last for a good 3-4 min. I find it > > kind of irritating. Seems like it only does it once a day though. I'm > > just running a laptop for webbrowsing, word processing and data analysis > > with a few simple console apps. How high do my security settings need to > > be? > > > > Thanks for helping me figure this out > > -Noah > > > > BTW is there something wrong with the list server? I got your reply but > > I didn't get my own message. > > > > On Tuesday 05 November 2002 11:24, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > 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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