Robustly disabling specific cron.{hourly,daily,weekly} script
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On various systems that I administer, there are cron scripts that get run via the commonly-used /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly}
layout. What I want to know is whether there's any common 'disable this script' functionality.
Obviously, simply deleting something out of a given directory will disable it, but I'm looking for a more permanent solution. Deleting /etc/cron.daily/slocate
will work to disable the nightly updatedb
on my home machine (where I never use slocate
), but next time I upgrade the slocate package, I'm pretty sure it'll reappear.
The two distributions I'm most interested in are Gentoo and OpenSUSE, but I'm hoping there's a widely-implemented mechanism. Both distros as I have them use vixie-cron (not sure it matters).
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