Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-24 Thread Paul
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: >So that means that the drive is actually being maintained in a defraged >state continually in the background? Most of it, yes. I have noticed some disk activity too at times that I was barely doing anything. And after that, a message at boot time that a c

RE: [newbie] What happens at midnight? <-- This!

2000-06-23 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
es 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 st

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Thread Mark Weaver
flupke wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Joe Lore wrote: > > > That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, > > ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..? > > > > Thanks > > > > Joe > > I already saw a "defrag.tgz" package, but AFAIK, the ext2 driver takes > care of defragmentat

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Thread Mark Weaver
; >From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Piero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM > >Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight? > > > > > >> I'

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Thread flupke
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Joe Lore wrote: > That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake, > ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..? > > Thanks > > Joe I already saw a "defrag.tgz" package, but AFAIK, the ext2 driver takes care of defragmentation by itself. About scnadisk, there

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Thread David Talbot
g, scandisk etc..? > >Thanks > >Joe > >- Original Message - >From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Piero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM >Subject: Re: [newbie] W

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Thread David Talbot
TECTED]> >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM >Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight? > > >> I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two >> occassions. It starts on the primary HDD and goes through all

RE: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Thread Oliver Stieber
To: "Piero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM > Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight? > > > > I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two > > occassions. It st

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Thread Mark Weaver
" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM > Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight? > > > I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two > > occassions. It starts on the primary HDD

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Thread Joe Lore
day, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight? > I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two > occassions. It starts on the primary HDD and goes through all of them > until it's satisfied. Eats up a lot of CPU doing it too! It&#

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Thread Mark Weaver
What if it's set to medium? If I remember correctly that's what I have mine set to. I tried setting it to because I don't yet have my firewall in place. That's another issue...anyway, when I set it to high I couldn't use sendmail, or httpd (internally) I use httpd internally to develope with PERL.

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Thread David Talbot
If your security is set to High or Paranoid, it's running a nightly security system audit. -David Talbot At 06:58 AM 6/24/00 -0400, you wrote: >I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two >occassions. It starts on the primary HDD and goes through all of them >until it's

Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?

2000-06-23 Thread flupke
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Piero wrote: > > 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