Hopefully this might help someone else avoid some troubles..... I had setup a cron job to do a backup. I used the following line in my crontab file:
* 02 * * * /root/cron/sysbackup Well, it turns out that this will run the cron job every minute from 02:00am to 02:59am. It should have been: 00 02 * * * /root/cron/sysbackup this fires only at 02:00am. My backup does an rsync of my data files into another directory, then creates an ISO image and writes it to a CDRW. So, this process can take a little while to happen. To have the backup process run every minute was causing all sorts of fun - but the server DID handle it. I just couldn't figure out why the CD would start ejecting and reloading every couple of seconds at 2 in the morning.... (I wrote the backup script to NOT eject the CD). Anyways, hope this helps someone avoid similar issues. Shawn
