SuSE Linux: Versions 6.0 to 7.3
Why does the hard disk, sometimes quite spontaneously, begin to work?
A cron-daemon is running in the background. This is a program which launches given commands at a given time (or in defined intervals). By default Cron is so configured that it erases old files in the /tmp directory and updates the database for "locate".
If you do not want this behaviour, you can switch it off in YaST under
System administration -> change configuration file
.
You can change the variables CRON
and
RUN_UPDATEDB
to fit your needs. If you turn
CRON
off completely be sure to regularly clean out the
logfiles under /var/log
. See the SuSE handbook under
"logfiles" for more information on this subject.