Dave Dickerson typed (on Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:24:15PM +0000):
| I'm being told to remove the calendar service from our OSR507 software
| baseline unless there is a compelling reason not to do so. On the
| surface there does not appear to be a valid reason to keep it as none
| of our operators use it.
|
| Does some other service in the OS use it? I have a dim recollection
| that back in the mid-90's that removing the calendar did something
| undesirable but I don't remember what, perhaps affecting the license
| manager or some such?
|
| Can anyone give me a reason why the calendar needs to stay active
| other than for convenience?
|
| TIA,
|
| DDinAZ

# grep calendar /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*
root:15 02 * * * /usr/bin/calendar -

# man calendar

I see nothing except a reminder service happening.
Any $HOME/calendar files exist anywhere?
# find / -name calendar -print

- Jeff Hyman

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:47:07 -0400, Jeff Hyman
wrote:

>Dave Dickerson typed (on Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:24:15PM +0000):
>| I'm being told to remove the calendar service from our OSR507 software
>| baseline unless there is a compelling reason not to do so. On the
>| surface there does not appear to be a valid reason to keep it as none
>| of our operators use it.
>|
>| Does some other service in the OS use it? I have a dim recollection
>| that back in the mid-90's that removing the calendar did something
>| undesirable but I don't remember what, perhaps affecting the license
>| manager or some such?
>|
>| Can anyone give me a reason why the calendar needs to stay active
>| other than for convenience?
>|
>| TIA,
>|
>| DDinAZ
>
># grep calendar /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*
>root:15 02 * * * /usr/bin/calendar -
>
># man calendar
>
>I see nothing except a reminder service happening.
>Any $HOME/calendar files exist anywhere?
># find / -name calendar -print
>
>- Jeff Hyman

Nope. So, I guess it's okay to deactivate.

Thanks, Jeff.

DDinAZ