Frenzying disk activity

[Aleksandar Vestica]

> > Shouldn't I have some jobs done during the night, like updatedb and
> > the like?
>
> Check /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d/ as these are the system
> crontab files.  That is where updatedb and such are launched from....

N.B.:

Check /etc/cron.d
Check /etc/cron.hourly
Check /etc/cron.daily (for RPMs, man updates, http logs etc etc etc ....)
Check /etc/cron.monthly
Check /etc/cron.weekly

Regards, AVE