[TriLUG] Cron question

[James c. Jones]

Andy,

Thanks for the tip. I had disabled anacron to conserve ram. I will not
attempt to disable cron.

jcj ( still learning linux )

Andrew Perrin wrote:
> anacron is a different beast from cron. It's probably not smart to get rid 
> of cron, as the system uses it for various functions, e.g., updatedb, 
> mandb, etc.
>
> Andy
>
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> Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
> Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
> University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
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>
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, James c. Jones wrote:
>
>   
>> Good Morning All,
>>
>> I have disabled cron ( I believe it's named anacron on ubuntu ) on my
>> desktop.
>>
>> Question: Why do I see cron jobs running in my syslog?
>>
>> jcj ( still learning linux )
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