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anyone know if there are scheduled processes in arch, as I found when there was multiple instances of mandb processes running then I tried to find out why it was spinning up the hard drive so much. I tried killing those mandb processes and one became defunct. Then there was updatedb processes running and I had to kill that but it had already ended. and to make things finish there was a sendmail. I dont know what was happening but I never sceduled anything like that. I was just trying to figure out how that happened.
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Take a look at the /etc/cron.* directories, you're likely to find your answers there. In particular, /etc/cron.daily appears to contain jobs for man-db and updatedb.
Add: If I remember correctly, you can disable them simply by making them non-executable, e.g. running "chmod -x /etc/cron.daily/updatedb" as root.
Last edited by Peasantoid (2009-04-30 02:55:23)
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yea there was those processes in there for some reason,I took them out, i just dont know if certain packages required that or what. but at least its not going to run unless i know about it in case i dont want it affecting the performace when I need it.
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