On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 07:30:43AM +0100, Alex Fitterling wrote: > I know what i want the thing is why can't debian do > I wish a desktop system and wish to get rid of cron and all other grab I do > not want to see on my system. other distributions can do.. I seen it > alex
# aptitude purge cron Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information... Done The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: logcheck logrotate The following packages will be REMOVED: cron logcheck logrotate That doesn't seem to have too much impact. Go ahead and get rid of it. Although apparently these things only plain-jane desktop want cron as well: # find /etc/cron* | cut -d'/' -f4 | sort | uniq bsdmainutils cvs dlocate find logcheck logrotate man-db modutils netkit-inetd .placeholder popularity-contest scrollkeeper standard sysklogd tetex-bin I wonder if they'd break. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]