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Yogev

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Registered: 2005-08-10

Posts: 34

What do i need Cron and Syslog-ng daemons for?

Is it safe to stop them?

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ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 1,718

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Re: What do i need Cron and Syslog-ng daemons for?

Well, here is the answer:

Cron:http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbi … ron-1.html
Syslog-ng: http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/syslog.html

once you know what they are you judge by yourself if you need them or not.

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bwalk

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 177

Re: What do i need Cron and Syslog-ng daemons for?

crond may be safe to stop if you don't use it. But if there is not a good reason, syslog-ng should be started always as it provides the system logger and some other daemons depend on it. And gernerally it is a good thing to have some logs around you to debug failures.

phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: What do i need Cron and Syslog-ng daemons for?

cron, even if *you're* not doing anything with it, is still useful.  By default it manages the 'locate' db and logrotate.
syslog-ng (or some other syslogger) should *definitely* be there.

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