Thanx Brian
On Thu, 2 May 2002 15:23:59 -0400 Brian Ashe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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 > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
