slocate in /etc/cron.daily is looking for all you files... joelja On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Carter J. Castor wrote: > I have a Dell Inspirion Laptop. The hard drive is very quite all day; > however, when I leave it idle at night, it starts spinning like crazy. > I would turn it off; however, I use KAlarm as my alarm clock so it sits > by my bed on my desk all night. I was wondering what would cause it to > suddenly make so much noise and how I could fix it. > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2