mgetty+slack7+hd activity

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Hi,

On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 09:17:58AM +0100, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> In article <19991120220701.A363@greenie.muc.de> you wrote:
> > *mgetty* is definitely not doing anything, so there is no need to send me
> > the logs.  I know what my programs do at night...
> 
> Note that (and you know that :)) if for some reason a lock file is present
> (and presumably a process, too), mgetty will, if the debug is sufficient,
> write `lock file found, sleeping' every N seconds, doesn't it ?

*If* there is a dialout going on, then, yes, mgetty will also check the
lock file every 10 seconds.

But there is nothing in mgetty that will cause disk activity every 60
seconds while no dialout is active...

gert

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