RE: disable cron job??

Actually MRTG may be used to monitor not only the network statistic, but
also the dynamic and history of any values which may be produced by the
user's program and given to the input of MRTG. For example, it is often
used to monitor the statistics of load average values. So you should
check with you users (if any) and disable the programs only if they are
not installed in crontab by some user.

Alexey Fadyushin.
Brainbench MVP for Linux
http://www.brainbench.com

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Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 12:51 PM
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Subject: Re: disable cron job??

On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 05:10:46AM +0800, mcclnx mcc wrote:
mrtg -- run every 5 minutes
sa1 -- run every 10 minutes

Can I disable those tow con jobs? What problem or disavvantage will
happen
if I disable it?

sa1 is part of the system accounting; it logs what commands are being
run (and the results of this can be seen with the 'lastcomm' command).
If you disable it, you won't have that information, but it won't cause
any problems otherwise.

mrtg is a network traffic monitoring tool. The cron job is used to
poll
various network devices for statistics; if no-one else set up the
application on that machine, then chances are the cron job is just
there
by default, and you can remove it safely...

Cheers,

Paul

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