From: Chris Hanson (cph_at_martigny.ai.mit.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 01 1996 - 15:23:00 EST
From: John Joowon Lee <jjl9_at_msc.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 02:02:00 -0500 (EST)
I'm primarily a user of flavors of UNIX and I've been quite happy with
Linux. I've noticed that about every 50 hours of uptime, however,
that Linux continuously accesses the hard-drive for several minutes;
except for olvwm and xterm, there is no correlation with running
applications. I haven't yet figured out what processes are involved.
I am naive with UNIX system administration; if someone should have an
idea about what Linux is doing, I would like to be educated.
It's probably doing a `find' that is part of the daily cron scripts or
something. It's been a while since I used Slackware, but my Debian
distribution has a standard script that runs once a day and scans the
entire file system for setuid scripts. On my system, this script runs
at about 6:45 every morning.
Look in "/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root" to see if there is anything
like that on your system.
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