>On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:53:17PM +0530, Babu Kalakrishnan wrote:
>> 
>> Also, how can I turn off the logging into the /var/log/cron file by the
>> crond daemon ? (I have crond running the "sync" command every minute in
>> order to avoid loss of data in case of a power failure and you can imagine
>> the amount of garbage that gets accumulated in the cron log :-( !!) 
>

Hello ! 
        There isn't much point in running sync every minute. update
(/sbin/update / bdflush) is usually runnn at default intervals of 30
seconds and internally calling sync () 

Regards
Shourya

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering Jadavpur University   
Calcutta, India 700 032

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