Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:37:58 +0000 (UTC) From: D Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: Warner Lambert <unixchild@live.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disable periodic scripts Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0803302236530.96118@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> In-Reply-To: <47F00590.1060805@cran.org.uk> References: <BLU138-W406D77008887A64CB9BCB6C3FB0@phx.gbl> <47F00590.1060805@cran.org.uk>
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On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 at 22:26 +0100, bruce@cran.org.uk confabulated: > Warner Lambert wrote: >> Hi >> >> How can I disable those nightly/monthly/... periodic scripts? I don't need >> them, these days professional monitoring software such as nagios is used to >> monitor 200+ systems. I can't read 200 mails showing me hundreds of lines >> of output even if nothings happening. Am I just deleting all the >> /etc/periodic/* stuff or is there a switch like: >> turn_off_ancient_system_administration="YES" ? >> >> Tnx. >> > > If you really want to disable cron, put > > cron_enable="NO" > > in /etc/rc.conf Or, the OP can just comment the periodic lines within: /etc/crontab That way other cron jobs will still run.
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