cron and desktop-kill-shit.sh

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cron and desktop-kill-shit.sh

Elimelech opened this issue 3 years ago · 3 comments

Hi!
And why in the crown to run this script (desktop-kill-shit.sh) every second?

In https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/07/01/freebsd-desktop-part-12-configuration-openbox/:

*     * * * ~/scripts/desktop-kill-shit.sh                                       1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null

Answer 1 · 2022-01-13T15:42:46.000Z

The '* * * * *' in cron(8) means it runs every minute, not every second.

Answer 2 · 2022-01-13T18:30:03.000Z

But why so often? Isn't it easier to just disable these services?

Answer 3 · 2022-01-14T11:38:26.000Z

They are not enabled. Yet they are still sometimes running. There are many ways to deal with them. One is to kill them periodically. You can also remove these executables from disk every time pkg(8) upgrade has been done ... or mark them as non-executable.