Frenzying disk activity
Robert Locke
rlocke at ralii.com
Wed Jul 28 20:41:03 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 15:44, Doru-Catalin Togea wrote:
> > Also check for root's and other users crontab to see if there is
> > something scheduled for the night...
>
> I checked the crontab in an xterm like this:
>
> [catalin at localhost catalin]$ crontab -l
> no crontab for catalin
> [catalin at localhost catalin]$ su -
> Password:
> [root at localhost root]# crontab -l
> no crontab for root
> [root at localhost root]#
>
> Shouldn't I have some jobs done during the night, like updatedb and the
> like?
Check /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d/ as these are the system crontab
files. That is where updatedb and such are launched from....
--Rob
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