On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> Gentle folks,
>
> I noticed a strange thing within RH 6.2 (the same I have seen within RH
> 6.1):
>
> Every 4-5 seconds, my hard disk drive is doing some short read/write (or
> else?) action, although I don't command anything from the keyboard, or
> mouse, and no particular computing is being performed (I could say the
> system is in idle condition). That short disk actions last for cca 1/4 -
> 1/2 second and repeat after 4-5 second of 'nothing' (pause).
>
> More precisely, that strange thing started after I tried to install an
> amateur radio software (both in tar and rpm versions) from the root
> account.
>
> Any idea what is going on here? How could I check and fix that?
>
> Misko
>
Check you log files in /var/log and see if you are getting error messages
in one of them. Log files are not cached, but are written to disk
everytime something is written to them. This is so that you have as
complete logs as possible in case of a crash. Maybe the Amateur Radio
software is logging something, especialy if it is running, but not
configured properly. The first place I would look if /var/log/messages.
Let us know what you find.
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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