[linux-audio-user] regarding services and cron jobs

[Paul Winkler]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 05:20:48PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:25:16 -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
> > > [dlphilp at localhost dlphilp]$ chkconfig --list | grep 5:on
> > > kudzu           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> > 
> > you can kill kudzu if you're not going to be installing 
> > new hardware while recording :-)
> 
> Whoa, removing it with chkconfig will stop it being run a boot time.
> Probably best to leave it.

I didn't say remove it, just stop any daemons temporarily.
  
> > > portmap         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> > 
> > i think you need that if networking is up.
> 
> Only NFS uses it AFAIK.

good to know, thanks.
 
> > > crond           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> > > anacron         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> > 
> > kill em both.
> 
> Not neccesaruly a good idea, you might need your logs to be rolled
> every now and again.

I didn't say remove them! I just meant stop them while 
recording / performing since you really don't want to kick off 
arbitrary scripts at 1 AM just when your muse strikes :-)

I'd probably do it with a custom runlevel.

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Paul Winkler
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