Noflushd spins the disk up immediately after spinning it down, unless I do a etc/init.d/sysklogd stop. This the potato sysklogd and a noflushd compiled from the sources in woody. Presumably the problem is noflushd logging a "Spinning down..." message, which gets flushed to the hard drive, heh. Now, I've prefixed all the filenames in /etc/syslog.conf with "-", like the man(page) said.. Anybody have a fix to this before I start hacking noflushd.c? -chris