[syslog-ng] Trying to let my harddrive spin down once in a while

Lars Stokholm lars.stokholm at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 20:28:57 CEST 2011


I see, that makes sense. Thanks. I would also like to avoid it if
possible. But in order to avoid it, I have to find out why this is
happening:

>>>>>> As you can probably see, syslog-ng writes every minute at least. I guess
>>>>>> that's because my user crontab has a command that gets run every minute.
>>>>>> What I don't get is why syslog-ng writes to the disk, even though I'm
>>>>>> telling it not to log crond's output.

Any ideas? As you can see from my syslog-ng.conf, everything that has
to do with crond is sent to /dev/null. So crond output shouldn't cause
a spin-up of my harddrive, but it does. Killing crond or removing the
once-per-minute-command from my user crontab will allow my harddrive
to stay spinned down for a long period of time. But I would rather not
do either.


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