On January 9, 2006 20:35, David wrote: > On Monday 09 January 2006 04:35 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > On Monday 09 January 2006 10:27, Duncan Anderson wrote: > > > David wrote: > > > >Periodically, I have the system basically lock up with massive disk > > > > activity at odd times. I have checked Cron, Crond, and have > > > > un-installed Kat. Cron, Crond, doesn't have anything scheduled at > > > > all. What else would I look for? ... > seems to point to Cron and a weekly thing. When I look at that there is > nothing scheduled with Cron at the user or root level. > The weekly stuff in the logrotate, etc. Cron stuff is Ok. I would just like > to schedule it at a time when I am not doing something on the computer, say > at like 5 or 6 in the morning.
When you checked the root cron entries, were you in a root login shell (that is, "su -" instead of just "su")? I read something in the cron man pages, that su can confuse cron, that it looks at the real userid, not the effective userid. So it's possible that you were still looking at the user cron entries when you thought you were looking at root's. To be sure, do this: su - crontab -l Or to be extra sure do: crontab -u root -l I noticed while I was writing this, though, that I don't seem to have any root crontab entries either, and yet I know that msec runs, and pretty sure than anacron runs. Perhaps there's some other scheduling option that we're overlooking. -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
