From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 30 21:26:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 419CD106566C for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:26:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.bluestop.org (muon.bluestop.org [IPv6:2001:41c8:1:548a::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC1D48FC17 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:26:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from tau.draftnet (unknown [IPv6:2a01:348:10f:0:219:b9ff:fe54:f04a]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.bluestop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAD803000D; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:26:42 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <47F00590.1060805@cran.org.uk> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:26:40 +0100 From: Bruce Cran User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080328) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Lambert References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disable periodic scripts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:26:44 -0000 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 -- Bruce