Frenzying disk activity

[Robert Locke]

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