Re: Heavy harddrive use after startup

[Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls@informaat.nl>]

> I guess it is anacron or cron.
> Look in your /etc/cron.daily: all these scripts are executed once a day, if 
> you have anacron running. It updates your htdig, locate, man-db, etc. 
> indexes. If you don't need a certain index just remove the executable bit 
> from the files or disable anacron in the init scripts alltogether.
> 
Thanks to both of you I looked in the cron.daily lineup and sure enough
it is there, and updates all these things plus some.  Mystery explained,
and as I make lots of use of these utilities, well worth the investment.:)

Thanks again,

rohan