From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Onbie-0007jU-A3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:26:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D99C7E0916; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:25:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 877DAE0916 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:25:24 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.56,257,1280703600"; d="scan'208";a="212180918" Received: from 213-152-39-90.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 23 Aug 2010 19:25:23 +0100 Received: from funf.stroller.uk.eu.org (funf.stroller.uk.eu.org [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C46A6C4FE for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:25:19 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: From: Stroller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <201008222339.48911.wonko@wonkology.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Disable fcron logging Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:25:19 +0100 References: <201008211525.35115.wonko@wonkology.org> <201008221226.28193.wonko@wonkology.org> <0059EB40-8530-454B-B092-ECA76E9F42A2@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <201008222339.48911.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Archives-Salt: 40b544d2-fc36-431c-accc-74900f5ac3c2 X-Archives-Hash: d7f014bc0b477038625fe78f4ddccd85 On 22 Aug 2010, at 22:39, Alex Schuster wrote: > Stroller writes: > >> The script with which you reply is missing the sleep 60 loop. > > No, it's only the script that outputs the drive's state. It's called > by > ~/.kde4/Autostart/hdstate: > > #!/bin/bash > > while : > do > /usr/local/sbin/hdstate >> ~/log/hdstate.log > sleep 10 > done You wrote to the list telling us that you were running a script from cron every minute, and that this was causing your log file to fill up with messages from cron. That is what I replied to. Please do not move the goalposts halfway through the thread, and make it about something else unrelated. That is the perfect way to annoy people who are trying to help you. Stroller.