OT Cron and GUI

[Billy A. Pumphrey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 10:37 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: OT Cron and GUI
> 
> On 11 Jul 2005, at 16:33, Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
> 
> > Will someone tell me how I can:
> > Test my crons by running cron.daily?
> 
> cd /etc/cron.daily
> Run each of the scripts in there (e.g. ./clean.quarantine)
> 
> > Turn off the GUI on my linux box?
> 
> Edit /etc/inittab and
> change the line that says
>      id:5:initdefault:
> so that it says
>      id:3:initdefault:
> 
> and reboot your box. Theoretically you can do it without rebooting
> with the command
>      telinit 3
> but I don't usually trust that.
> 
> --
Thank you
Billy

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