Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Stopping cron jobs
From: Jan Depner (eviltwin69_AT_cableone.net)
Date: Wed Aug 11 2004 - 00:52:28 EEST
I always turn off crond before I start doing any serious recording. I
also turn off syslogd and anything else that can cause a problem. None
of this will compromise your system. I set up a script to turn
everything off and one to turn everything on. Qjackctl has slots to run
these.
Jan
On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 20:04, LinuxMedia wrote:
> > on a RH system use
> >
> > service crond stop
> > run your audio apps
> > service crond start
> >
> > On most other ditributions use (or RH)
> >
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/crond stop
> > run your audio apps
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/crond start
>
> Maybe this is too general of a question, but trying to route out the
> answer seems like to would take a while. Is it common for any of the
> distibutions to set up cron jobs that just *have* to run at a certain
> time (or maybe *by* a certain period of time)? I'm talking about stuff
> that would compamise my system. I currently run SuSE 9.0 Professional.
> Should I take on the task of finding out everything I need to learn to
> answer this? I just have too many project to deal with. But turning off
> cron jobs seems like another good way to eliminate problems while
> recording. I'll take any advantage I can take.
>
> Thanks,
> Rocco
>
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