Re: what's accessing my hard drive every few seconds?

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On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 15:00, Eric Wood wrote:
> Well, according to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42242 this bug
> was squashed and they're polling /proc/mounts now.
> 
> Robert Day, can you strace your running applications one at a time until you
> find the app that keeps accessing your drive?
> 
> # strace -p <pid>
> 
> Just do the obvious pid's and you should see a several system calls fly by
> every 5 seconds - then you know you've got the right application and we'll
> go after them!

cups is something to check, depending on how you configure it, it can
touch stuff in /tmp or /etc regularly

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