In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.990914234601.17041A-100000@ux1.ibb.net>,
	Reinoud Koornstra <Reinoud.Koornstra@ibbnet.nl> writes:
> starting daemons : update cron
> 
> What are those daemons and what are they good for?

"man cron" and "man update" will give you a detailed introduction.

> Can i turn them off without comming into trouble?

Turning off "cron" won't probably cause any harm unless you have something
like a news system running on your machine.

Turning off "update" can cause massive data loss. Unless you want to save
battery power on a notebook you should better leave it turned on.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                            http://www.sighardstrasse.de/~tron/