On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 12:17, George Gambill wrote:
> Every now and then I notice intense disk activity.  The disk light is on

I'll bet it is updatedb or makewhatis or logrotate or something similar
doing it's job.  These janitorial functions are usually configured as
cron jobs.

man cron
man crontab
man anacron
man anacrontab

ls -halF /etc/cron.*


...Kevin