Stop google Chrome cron job?

Stuart McGraw smcg4191 at mtneva.com
Fri May 12 22:05:10 UTC 2023


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.




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