rsync causing disk sleeps and loss of apps

[Martin (KDE)]

Am Montag, 31. Januar 2011 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> On Monday 31 January 2011 14:08:51 Martin (KDE) wrote:
> > lsof | grep -E "(3180|3181|3183)"
> > 
> > remeber the ", they are required to get the argument as one
> > single string.
> 
> I tried that.  It hung there silently until I gave it ^C

Did you tried this from a console (a linux one not konsole)? As root? 
Did you run the cronjob as root as well?

Can yo by any chance provide the script and the configuration in your 
crontab?

Martin

> 
> Anne