Isn't there a way to specify the size of the logs and how long they are kept till they are deleted? Matt On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Jeffrey Taylor wrote:

In /etc/rc.config change CRON="yes" to CRON="no". You may wish to be more selective, look at other mentions of cron in this file. There is a lot of keeping things current that cron does (like the database for the locate command). An alternative is to edit /etc/crontab. Comment out the hourly ones, and move the daily/weekly/monthly to a time you are unlikely to be on. Or change the hourly to run only daily.

I've just handed you the means to shoot yourself in the foot. Use it responsibly.

Jeffrey

Quoting James Hatridge :

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Hi all..

Could some kind soul tell me how to turn OFF this "?$"?!"? cron program? There's nothing I want done by cron, but a couple of times it starts up just when I'm on the net with netscrape and locks the system up. Plus the durn thing leaves large backup files that I have no need of. So instead of trying to turn off each thing I just want to turn the whole thing off.

TIA!

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Is it safe to outcomment (#) lines like /var/log/isdn in /etc/logfiles, things that doesn't exist on my box? It seems unnecessary to make cron.daily watch files that doesn't exist. Cheers, ei On Tuesday 06 March 2001 19:05, Jeffrey Taylor wrote:

Yes, in /etc/logfiles.

HTH, Jeffrey

Quoting Matthew Johnson :

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Isn't there a way to specify the size of the logs and how long they are kept till they are deleted?

Matt

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