Debian runs automatically (every day) a program named `updatedb' which builds some sort of file database. To disable this you can simply chmod 644 /etc/cron.daily/find. -Lex On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 08:47:38AM -0700, Martin Waller wrote: > It's happened to me before (under hamm, but not slink) and it was find > running. > > I don't why it ran find but it was a pain in the ass. > > I haven't had the problem for a while. > > May be there's some process running that lokks for something in a default > loctaion and then if it can't get it there forks a find to try to locate it. > > I suspected TkDesk when this happened to me, but that could have been > unfounded. > > caveat: this may have nothing to do with the problem you have! > > Martin > > > > >From: Gregory Wood <gwood@farsweb.com> > >To: Patrick Colbeck <pat.colbeck@esc.azlan.co.uk> > >CC: Barry Kauler <bkauler@cowan.edu.au>, debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far. > >Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 09:45:51 -0500 > > > >Patrick Colbeck wrote: > > > > > Hey, my hard drive did the sudden thrashing thing last night too. Its > > > never done it before (well it has in NT but not in Linux). All I was > > > doing was reading mail remotely over a dialup line using xemacs in a > > > kterm in KDE 1.1.1 (from snowcrash). It stopped after a while (about 4 > > > minutes) and has been fine since. This never happened before in RedHat > > > or with Hamm. Is this a KDE thing perhaps ?. I am running on an AST M > > > series Laptop which has 48Mb ram and a 2GB Linux partition with about > > > 1300MB free and a 92MB swap file. > > > > > > Pat > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < > >/dev/null > > > >It sounds like a 'cron' job was running. > > > > > >-- > >Gregory Wood > >Farsight Computer > >1219 W University Blvd > >Odessa TX 79764 > >Voice: 1-915-335-0879 > >CT Pioneers Board Member > >Novell CNE > >Appgen VAR > > > > > > > >-- > >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < > >/dev/null > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null >
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