Patrick, On Thursday May 02, 2002 02:19, you said something about: > On 2 May 2002 18:16:21 -0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hey all, > > > >When my laptop with RH7.2 has finishing starting, the laptop keeps doing > >something according to the sound I hear in the laptop. After a top cmd I > > saw that the update daemon is causing all this. But my question is: why > > does it runs when there is nothing running or playing or whatever on the > > laptop and
This is actually because of the anacron daemon. Anacron is a service that is for machines that aren't on all the time. It tries to "catch up" a system that hasn't had the things that are usually meant for cron to take care of. It is not "load sensitive", so it cannot tell if it is going to take up too much processing power and annoy you. ;) You can do a "man anacron" to learn more about how to "delay" the activation of the scripts or you can simply disable anacron altogether. Just a note: I am not sure if you will suffer any ill effects from completely disabling it. Most of the stuff in cron is system maintenence related items that may or may not effect your usual usage. This means you would either have to manually run those processes, start anacron periodically or leave the machine on at times when cron will perform those tasks (as per it's settings). So you may want to consider deffering it for a little longer then the default. (In the /etc/anacrontab file "man anacrontab" for more info) > how can I disable this??? chkconfig --level=345 anacron off -- Brian Ashe CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
