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
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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