Re: [CentOS] Something is writing a log

On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 07:16 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

I can just be sittting, doing nothing, and I hear the sound of my hardrive head moving. Just every so often. Like some process is writing a log.

I have looked in /var/log and do see occational updates to acpi and messages, but that does not account for all the clicks.

Is there somewhere else to look for logs? I would really like to know what process has something to remember.....

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Are you sure it's log activity from the OS? Got "smart" drives? They doing anything? Maybe cache flushes (default 5 seconds, IIRC)? Checked your crontabs?

HTH -- Bill