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Does anybody know how to stop SuSE 9 from writing data to the hard disk of

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my laptop so very often. Basically, if you have done this already yourself, and are quite familiar with the set of things that need to be done and how to do them, please get in touch with me. I have changed a couple of settings that helped (I'm not usre if these changes were durable from one session to the next) that helped but I can't remember what I changed, so I probably need to re-visit this topic myself and post some more useful info to help with this query. I think I changed the percentage of a buffer that could be used up before it had to be written to disk, and another thing or two also, but I can't remember more now. Anyway, I thought someone might actually know everything off by heart, and could pass it on.

One thing that always catches me out is the -- Mark -- that gets written to / var/log/messages every 20 mins by syslog. On SuSE I fix this by editing a line in /etc/sysconfig/syslog SYSLOGD_PARAMS="-m 0" Not sure if that is the "proper" place to change such a thing, but at the time working backwards from when syslog gets started by it's init script it seemed like the most logical place. I leave it in place for desktops and servers though, I have in the past known [ALUG] hard disc and laptop References: <20040210062529.19279.51982.Mailman@terry.blackcatnetworks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040210062529.19279.51982.Mailman@terry.blackcatnetworks.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wayne Stallwood wrote:

One thing that always catches me out is the -- Mark -- that gets written to /var/log/messages every 20 mins by syslog. On SuSE I fix this by editing a line in /etc/sysconfig/syslog

SYSLOGD_PARAMS="-m 0"

On Slackware 9.1, there's a line in /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog which reads '/usr/sbin/syslogd'; appending '-m 0' to it stops the '--MARK--' entries appearing, too. The value following the '-m' controls the interval at which --MARK-- gets written, so if you wanted to maintain the --MARK-- but have it occurring less frequently, presumably you could set this value appropriately. Gerald.