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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.
See also:
Keywords: CRON, UPDATEDB, EXPERTS MENU
Feedback welcome: Send Mail to rj@suse.de (Please give the following subject: SDB-cron
)
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