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2004-11-12, 02:34

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Originally Posted by Brad
Well, here's another one. The "distnoted" process also seems to periodically be writing to the disk, making the ticking noise. Unfortunately, whenever I try to kill this sucker, another one shortly respawns in its place.

Anyone know anything about the distnoted process? The man pages, as usual, are useless.
I wonder what this thing is, the man file says it shouldn't be run by the user manually, so I deduce there is no harm if it is not run at all.

so I proceeded to rename the process distnoted.disabled. this way, the system can no longer respawn it.

I'm going to sleep now, fingers crossed the hdd will be cool when I wake up tomorrow.
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