On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Tom Allison wrote: > What do you mean by that statement. > is this a conflict or what. I'm having roughly the same problem as > described.
Umm, they're the log daemons. The drive's spinning up because something needs to write to the log. You'll use less power and your drive will last longer if you keep whichever drive has /var/log spinning. Unless this box is going into some embedded system or a laptop, I don't think the fraction of a cent increase on the power bill to run a hard disk for a month is going to make a difference in the end. Your real power savings hit when you kill the monitor, or the entire system. Before it's proposed, removing system loggers is *strongly* discouraged. -- Baloo
