On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 08:34:55PM -0800, Wil Cooley wrote: > > Has anyone else seen this? I and another person were working on a pair > of IBM ThinkPads on Friday--an R31 (his) and a T20 (mine), both of which > are running Psyche, with some updates. His went disk-mad about 16:00 > (while running nothing other than GNOME and some terminals) and I > noticed shortly afterwards that mine was hitting the disk a lot and I > checked 'top' and saw updatedb was running. As you know, updatedb is > run out of cron with run-parts at 4:02AM (well, when its turn comes). > > We're set for PST, which is GMT-8, so I'm sure it wasn't just a timezone > issue (otherwise it would have run at 20:00). I see no updates to the > cron or crontabs packages, nor does Bugzilla turn up. Has anyone else > seen this? > > My laptop at least had been on for about an hour, so I don't think it > was running out of anacron either. > Well there are two possibilities. One notices that 4pm is 16 in the 24 hour clock. Also anacron runs up2date periodically on my machines that are not up at 4 am and I ma not sure this happens immediately on boot; but of this let me emphasize I am not sure. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@trinity.edu -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
