Disabling Munin and Awstats

Munin is a server and network monitoring tool. AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages.

Sometimes both can result in High Server i/o due to its periodic cron tasks. Uninstalling via command line wont help as you may see cron based tasks for Munin and Awstats running in logs.

Disabling munin and awstats from /etc/cron.d/ is recommended. Comment the cron entries inside /etc/cron.d/munin, /etc/cron.d/munin-node and /etc/cron.d/awstats

Disable munin from staring up during restart: For Ubuntu Systemss.. May work for Other *nix systems as well

service munin-node stop [Stop Munin Now]
sudo service cron restartĀ  [Restart the cron so that disabling of Cron Tasks works]
sudo update-rc.d munin-nodeĀ  disable [Disable during Startup]