[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > More details and further ideas: It is a more-or-less classical > dial-in box. It has a harddisk that from time to time is actually > needed, but most of the time (approx 22hrs a day) its sole job > is IP maquerading and running a nameserver (BIND9 as out of > the box, caching-only).
FWIW, I have a very similar box as my wireless access point and dialup machine. With noflushd, I typically keep the disk spun down for 24 hours at a time. > ls -rt indicates that syslogd & al. are responsible for the > frequent activity, at any rate the only files that have changed > during the last couple of hours are to be found in /var/log. syslogd by default sync's log files when it writes them to disk. You want to disable that by putting a '-' in front of all the filenames, like so: daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log -- see shy jo
