Re: What makes the drive tick every 5 seconds on RH 9.0?

From: Loren Amelang (loren_at_pacific.net)
Date: 08/26/03 

Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:57:34 -0700

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 01:23:07 +0930, Tim <admin@sheerhell.lan> wrote:
> Some more playing around, seems to point the finger at whether or not
> the CUPS server is running. I can stop the ticking, if I turn that off
> (but of course, I can't print). However, it only ticks if I'm logged
> into the GUI. I can logout, and CUPS is still running, and it doesn't
> tick. It's most perplexing.
>
> Reading the CUPS documentation hasn't helped me. It's too convoluted to
> make sense of something that I'm not familiar with.

Put a sniffer on the network connection. I haven't checked RedHat, but I've
noticed the CUPS in Apple's OS X defaults to continually broadcasting
announcements and queries. We were able to stop most of it by deselecting
some print features.

Loren

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