From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 11 20:11:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pokey.local.net (tcs1-38.arl.netwalk.net [216.69.200.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E10F14E80 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 20:11:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmutter@netwalk.com) Received: from insomnia.local.net (insomnia.local.net [192.168.2.3]) by pokey.local.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA13823; Tue, 11 May 1999 10:47:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jmutter@insomnia.local.net) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:50:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@netwalk.com To: Veaceslav Revutchi Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd router with 4mb RAM and two eth. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's not absolutely necessary, if that's what you're asking. It is however a good idea. You won't get any logging without syslogd, and the default cron setup with FreeBSD takes care of a lot of "system cleanup/maintanance" issues. If I were you, I'd leave both of them turned on. Neither is taking up a substantial amount of CPU time, and the benefits of leaving them on far outweigh the benefits of turning them off. On Tue, 11 May 1999, Veaceslav Revutchi wrote: : :Hi : :I turned a 486sx with 4mb ram and 200mb HD into a router with two ethernet :interfaces. I also run snmpd on that machine. :My question is: do I really need to run syslogd and cron? : :veaceslav : : : :To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message : : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message