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
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 look
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
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
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's like there's
a massive search
t: 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 of them
until it's satisfied. Eats up a lot of CPU doing it too! It's like there'
you can use fsck which is kinda like scandisk
i don't know about a defrag tool.(i once had an nt box that was 98%
fragmented!)
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Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight
That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake,
ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..?
Thanks
Joe
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Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:
etc..?
Thanks
Joe
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Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
I'd like to know the same thing! This has happen
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 is
ly spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake,
ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..?
Thanks
Joe
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Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM
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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 defragmentation by itself.
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
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