9 Aug
2004
9 Aug
'04
9:44 p.m.
On Monday 09 August 2004 02:24 pm, Jack O'Quin wrote:
Rick B <zajelo3(a)cfl.rr.com> writes:
Have a cigar. ;)
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.
The default runlevel is set in /etc/inittab on any box with sysvinit
(RH,Debian,SuSE,Gentoo,Mandrake, ad nauseum) but as far as setting up the
actual services in the runlevel there is no shortage of tools.
Webmin has a runlevel editor, KDE has a runlevel editor, I don't see it in the
menus, but GNOME had one in the past.
There is usually a vendor supplied script called either rc.d-update or
update-rc.d (those are the actual variations I've seen, not a memory lapse)
for managing the links via the command line.