Postby dedanna1029 » 27 Mar 2011, 17:50
Well, it seems it's not cron doing it. I installed Vcron and checked it; it doesn't show the hourly cron because it's commented out in crontab. So, the mystery remains as to why, every hour, crond and updatedb are running anyway. What makes it more of a mystery, is that the only thing in /etc/cron.hourly is adjtime. What's even more of a mystery from there, is the only two things that had anything at all in any of the /etc/cron.* folders, was in /etc/cron.daily (the adjtime only), and in /etc/cron.daily. There was nothing in /etc/cron.weekly, or in /etc/cron.monthly.
If you could do me a favor please I'd really appreciate it? See what's in all four of those folders in Mandriva? I know it has at least *something* in them. I used to turn off the hourly cron soon as I'd install Mandriva via the MCC, so it wouldn't bog me down.
What I've done for now, was move updatedb from /etc/cron.daily to /etc/cron.monthly. I rarely need that thing to run, if at all. I think I've run it manually twice in the whole time I've been using Arch. I've also, in rc.conf, put an @ in front of crond in daemons so it would run in the background. So far, that's helping, but I'd still like to change the times of the daily and weekly crons to 4:00 a.m. (which I still can't figure out; I get the columns on times, days, dates, etc. mixed up).
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so I had to ignore it during update. No worries.
Maybe this will help: