From: "Ben Donohue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hi Slugs, > I have a Mandrake 9 box. Turn it on and after a week or so of running > the hard disk access light seems to stay almost constantly on. This will > continue for about a week and then stop back to normal ie very low > activity. Give it another week or two and then another week or so of > hard access again. If I reboot the box (ah windows training) the access > is normal till a week or so and then heavy access all over again. > > I currently have no clue of where to start looking for what is causing > this. It is not access from the internet or myself or others. Any > pointers as to where to start (to help my Linux learning) would be > greatly appreciated! > First, look in /etc/cron.d, /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly, /etc/cron.monthly, or /etc/cron.d. When files are present in a directory above a program is started. When that program is in cron.daily it is started every day; in cron.weekly it is started once a week, etc. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
