On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Dave Swegen wrote: > I'm trying to set my system up so that I can leave the computer on while I > sleep. I discovered that a fair amount of the noise was caused by the > HDDs, and sending them to sleep made things a lot quiter. However, whilst > I can spin down the secondary HDD (/usr), the main one (/) only remains > asleep for 10 seconds or so, before spinning up again. Anyone have any > suggestions what I can do about this?
This one bothers me too... I used to have it sorted, it was smail running to send mail.. I use exim now, but it isn't that, I have disabled its crontab entry. > Also, does an eventual hdparm script go into /etc/rc.boot? I was really replying about this... Yes, it does. (I find it is easier in there than anywhere else. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A feature is a bug with seniority. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian GNU/Linux.... Ooohh You are missing out!