Brian Ashe wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>When my laptop with RH7.2 has finishing starting, the laptop keeps doing >>something according to the sound I hear in the laptop. After a top cmd I >>saw that the update daemon is causing all this. But my question is: why >>does it runs when there is nothing running or playing or whatever on the >>laptop and > > This is actually because of the anacron daemon. Anacron is a service that is > for machines that aren't on all the time. It tries to "catch up" a system > that hasn't had the things that are usually meant for cron to take care of.
among the first things i do upon installing a redhat system are.. chkconfig --del anacron ..and, disable accounting, by changing the rc.sysinit accton call to.. action $"Turning off process accounting" /sbin/accton ..i've never missed them.. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
