Several things happen at night. 1) Msec runs it's security updates 2) If tripwire is installed it runs it's check 3) slocate runs to create the "locate" database 4) makewhatis runs to create the "whatis" database 5) Most of your services are stopped as ... 6) the logrotate job runs to truncate & archive the old logs 7) then your services are restarted 8) tmpwatch runs to clean the /tmp files 9) anacron runs to update time stamps 10)unused TeX fonts are removed 11)Inn Daemons run if installed 12)A postfix checker is run 13)News is expired 14)Unused modules are removed from Memory All in all Linux is VERY busy at night... -JMS |-----Original Message----- |From: Piero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 6:35 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] What happens at midnight? | | | |Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on |furiously for |a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, |program set up |by Mandrake to act regularly at this time. | |I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look at |crontable(s) and acron |tables, without much success: for one side I haven't had the |patience to study |their format, for the other they seem to launch programs for which I didn't |fint a man page. | |Daoes anybody know? |
