En Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:15:23AM +0800, Raymund dos Remedios escribio:
#_ You might want to try directing std-out of the cron output to /dev/null. On
#_ the Vixie cron, the std-err will still get mailed to the crontab owner unless
#_ you override the MAILTO.
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#_ * * * * * /bin/sync > /dev/null
#_
#_ BTW, you may want to check out
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http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edition-v1.3/gen-optim.html
#_
#_ ... talks about bdflush and buffermem.
#_
#_ Quick question though. I did not quite recognize the syntax on the crontab
#_ entry you sent the list
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#_ * * * * * root /bin/sync
#_ ^^^^
#_ Is this a linux system with the Vixie cron?
Yes this is Vixie Cron on Linux Mandrake 8.0 That root is there because this
entry is a carry over from a Mandrake 6.0 setup I had a couple of years
back. I gues I don't need to specify "root" in Vixie Cron, although the
default Mandrake 8.0 install has "root" in it.
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