Stop google Chrome cron job?

Ralf Mardorf kde.lists at yahoo.com
Sat May 13 16:46:05 UTC 2023


On Fri, 2023-05-12 at 16:05 -0600, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> On 5/10/23 13:08, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> > On 5/10/23 09:53, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > you can use "dpkg-divert --add --rename --divert" to change the file
> > > location and/or name automatically, each time the package gets upgraded.
> > > [...]
> > > You could even test, if you can "install" the cronjob to /dev/null by
> > > dpkg-divert. I've never tested it.
> > > You only run "dpkg-divert --add --rename --divert" one time, then it
> > > does change the file location and/or name for each upgrade
> > > automatically. To get rid of it you need to run
> > > "dpkg-divert --rename --remove".
> > 
> > That's all news to me and very interesting.  If /dev/null doesn't work,
> > /etc/cron.daily/google-chrome.disabled would be fine, maybe even better.
> > Thanks!
> 
> Just some quick feedback on this.  It worked great (google-chrome.disabled)!
> Thanks again.

You are welcome!





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