On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 05:41, Alexander Apprich wrote: > Hi Catalin, > > Doru-Catalin Togea wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I leave my FC2 machine on at night and after about 8 hours of inactivity > > it starts some insane hardisk activity. This activity takes about one hour > > to complete and the PC is extremely little responsive while it is doing > > it. At the end of this activity, all my applications are closed down and I > > am logged out. > > > > I wonder what this could be and how necessary it is? > > > > I know RH9 used to do an updatedb and some other things at 4 a.m., but > > this happens arround 6 or 7 a.m. and it takes soooo awfully long and it > > logs me out. > > > > Any ideas what it can be? > > > > If you know the time when this happens, check /var/log/messages to see > if the application(s) did some logging. > > Also check for root's and other users crontab to see if there is > something scheduled for the night... > > > Thanks, > > Catalin > > > > Just a thought... > > Alex I suspect that updatedb (as noted "some application") is what is the culprit. Check also the system crontab. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
