Re: KDE and hdparm (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging)

2010-08-30 Thread Mick
On 24 August 2010 14:31, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Mick writes: On Sunday 22 August 2010 22:39:47 Alex Schuster wrote: BTW, my two additional drives spin up when I log into KDE. Weird, they are not even mounted. From KDE-4.4.4 the start up interferes with the hard drives:

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:12 on Tuesday 24 August 2010, Alex Schuster did opine thusly: Configure your syslogger to devnull these specific entries. All three common sysloggers (syslogd,syslog-ng,rsyslog) all come with extensive documentation on how to do this. Hmm, okay. I

KDE and hdparm (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging)

2010-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On Sunday 22 August 2010 22:39:47 Alex Schuster wrote: BTW, my two additional drives spin up when I log into KDE. Weird, they are not even mounted. From KDE-4.4.4 the start up interferes with the hard drives: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/232044 I

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-23 Thread Stroller
On 22 Aug 2010, at 22:39, Alex Schuster wrote: Stroller writes: The script with which you reply is missing the sleep 60 loop. No, it's only the script that outputs the drive's state. It's called by ~/.kde4/Autostart/hdstate: #!/bin/bash while : do /usr/local/sbin/hdstate

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: On 22 Aug 2010, at 22:39, Alex Schuster wrote: Stroller writes: The script with which you reply is missing the sleep 60 loop. No, it's only the script that outputs the drive's state. It's called by ~/.kde4/Autostart/hdstate: #!/bin/bash while : do

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:25 on Saturday 21 August 2010, Alex Schuster did opine thusly: There is a nolog option for fcrontab, but I still get this output every minute: That will tell fcron not to log stuff. It will not tell other apps to not stuff Right.

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: On 21 Aug 2010, at 14:25, Alex Schuster wrote: ... I want to monitor the power status of my hard drives, so I wrote a little script that gives me this output: sda: standby sdb: standby sdc: active/idle 32°C sdd: active/idle 37°C This script is called

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Aug 2010, at 20:00, Stroller wrote: On 22 Aug 2010, at 11:26, Alex Schuster wrote: Stroller writes: #!/bin/bash while true do for drive in a b c d do /usr/sbin/smartctl /dev/sd$drive --whatever /var/log/hdstate done sleep 60 done I use hdparm and hddtemp: for hd in sda sdb

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Stroller writes: The script with which you reply is missing the sleep 60 loop. No, it's only the script that outputs the drive's state. It's called by ~/.kde4/Autostart/hdstate: #!/bin/bash while : do /usr/local/sbin/hdstate ~/log/hdstate.log sleep 10 done Running a script

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-22 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 August 2010 22:39:47 Alex Schuster wrote: Stroller writes: The script with which you reply is missing the sleep 60 loop. No, it's only the script that outputs the drive's state. It's called by ~/.kde4/Autostart/hdstate: #!/bin/bash while : do

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:25 on Saturday 21 August 2010, Alex Schuster did opine thusly: Hi there! I want to monitor the power status of my hard drives, so I wrote a little script that gives me this output: sda: standby sdb: standby sdc: active/idle 32°C sdd: active/idle 37°C

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging

2010-08-21 Thread Stroller
On 21 Aug 2010, at 14:25, Alex Schuster wrote: ... I want to monitor the power status of my hard drives, so I wrote a little script that gives me this output: sda: standby sdb: standby sdc: active/idle 32°C sdd: active/idle 37°C This script is called every minute via an fcron entry, output