Hard disk runs spontaneously

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Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions 6.0 to 7.3

Why does the hard disk, sometimes quite spontaneously, begin to work?

A cron-daemon is running in the background. This is a program which launches given commands at a given time (or in defined intervals). By default Cron is so configured that it erases old files in the /tmp directory and updates the database for "locate".

If you do not want this behaviour, you can switch it off in YaST under System administration -> change configuration file. You can change the variables CRON and RUN_UPDATEDB to fit your needs. If you turn CRON off completely be sure to regularly clean out the logfiles under /var/log. See the SuSE handbook under "logfiles" for more information on this subject.


Keywords: CRON, UPDATEDB, EXPERTS MENU

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