[linux-audio-user] Stopping cron jobs

Jack O'Quin joq at io.com
Mon Aug 9 14:24:57 EDT 2004


Rick B <zajelo3 at cfl.rr.com> writes:

>     Is there a way to keep cron jobs from running while doing audio
> work? I mean heaven forbid I'm doing something at 4am and cron wants
> to prelink and update the database.

The "best" solution is probably to define a special runlevel in your
inittab for doing critical audio work.  In that runlevel cron and most
of the other system daemons would be inactive.  Switching back to your
default runlevel would start them all up again.

The problem with this approach is that various distributions manage
runlevels differently, and it's generally rather clumsy to set up.
-- 
  joq



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