I looked at the cron.daily and it's probably rotating the log files. To see
what your system is running at midnight look at:
/etc/cron.daily
-david Talbot
At 09:42 AM 6/23/00 -0400, you wrote:
>That actualy spawns a question. Are there disk tools we can use in Mandrake,
>ie.. defrag, scandisk etc..?
>
>Thanks
>
>Joe
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Piero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:58 AM
>Subject: Re: [newbie] What happens at midnight?
>
>
>> I'd like to know the same thing! This has happened to me also on two
>> occassions. It starts on the primary HDD and goes through all of them
>> until it's satisfied. Eats up a lot of CPU doing it too! It's like there's
>> a massive search going on. What's up with this?
>>
>> --
>> Mark
>>
>> I love my Linux Box....!
>> REASON #1 -- ...it's not Windows!
>> Registered Linux user #1299563
>>
>> On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Piero wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >Everyday, around midnight, my hard disk strts to work and goes on
>furiously for
>> >a few minutes. It must be a supervising, cleaning, controlling, program
>set up
>> >by Mandrake to act regularly at this time.
>> >
>> >I'd very much like to know wat it is. Tried to look at crontable(s) and
>acron
>> >tables, without much success: for one side I haven't had the patience to
>study
>> >their format, for the other they seem to launch programs for which I
>didn't
>> >fint a man page.
>> >
>> >Daoes anybody know?
>> >
>>
