atacontrol spindown

[Alexander Popov]

Hi, Daniel,

This is the output:

Checking setuid files and devices:

Checking for uids of 0:
root 0
toor 0

Checking for passwordless accounts:

Checking login.conf permissions:

***.home kernel log messages:
+++ /tmp/security.G4QuXmuU	2009-04-29 03:01:08.000000000 +0200
+ad4: Idle, spin down
+ad4: drive spun down.
+ad8: Idle, spin down
+ad8: drive spun down.
+ad4: request while spun down, starting.
+ad8: request while spun down, starting.
+ad8: Idle, spin down
+ad8: drive spun down.
+ad4: Idle, spin down
+ad4: drive spun down.
+ad4: request while spun down, starting.

The timestamps in /var/log/messages suggested that  "+ad4: request while spun down, starting." happened at 3:01 am.

It would not be very nice if it was due to cron start up; I don't have any system partitions on those drives, it shouldn't touch them...

Regards,

Alexander.


--- On Wed, 4/29/09, Daniel C. Dowse <dcdowse at gmx.net> wrote:

> From: Daniel C. Dowse <dcdowse at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: atacontrol spindown
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 3:07 PM
> On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:44:51 -0700 (PDT)
> Alexander Popov <aopopov at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi, Daniel,
> > 
> > It must be periodic(8), but I have trouble identifying
> what exactly could be the trigger. If I look at
> /etc/defaults/periodic.conf, it has 
> > daily_clean_disks_enable="NO".
> > With respect to daily checks, I just have the default
> setup, nothing that I added myself.
> > 
> > Are there any other configuration options that I
> should look at?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> 
> Hi, Alexander,
> 
> maybe post the part for the disk in your output of your
> daily security
> checks here, would be much  easier to find out what the
> trigger may be.
> 
> What file/directories are accessed, when it comes to that
> point? 
> 
> IMHO:  i believe it is just because the hdd is
> "there", so i think when
> the cron runs it just checks that the disk is still there.
> 
> 
> thx
> 
> D.Dowse 
> 
> 
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