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Date:      Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:26:40 +0100
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Warner Lambert <unixchild@live.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: disable periodic scripts
Message-ID:  <47F00590.1060805@cran.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <BLU138-W406D77008887A64CB9BCB6C3FB0@phx.gbl>
References:  <BLU138-W406D77008887A64CB9BCB6C3FB0@phx.gbl>

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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




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