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From: Van Chocstraw on 3 Feb 2010 10:13
Why is gconftool-2, zypper and applydeltarpm running in the background
without my knowledge or consent? It's like some update was happening.
I happen to catch drive activity and ran top to see what was up.
Now mandb is running like no tomorrow. Now gzip has kicked in.
Lots of work I'm blind to.
From: JT on 3 Feb 2010 10:21
On 03/02/10 16:13, Van Chocstraw wrote:
> Why is gconftool-2, zypper and applydeltarpm running in the background
> without my knowledge or consent? It's like some update was happening.
> I happen to catch drive activity and ran top to see what was up.
> Now mandb is running like no tomorrow. Now gzip has kicked in.
> Lots of work I'm blind to.
>
Not completely blind: you spotted them with 'top' ?

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Kind regards, JT

From: David Bolt on 3 Feb 2010 15:28
On Wednesday 03 Feb 2010 15:13, Van Chocstraw became really curious
about what was going on with his system and posted:

> Why is gconftool-2

No idea. I try to use Gnome as little as possible. So much so that the
only reason I did use Gnome was because KDE4 was broken in Milestone 0.
Since it's fixed, at least at the moment, I'm back to not using Gnome.

> , zypper and applydeltarpm

You've configured auto-updates, and one just happens to be taking place
when you looked.

> running in the background
> without my knowledge or consent? It's like some update was happening.

That's because that's what is happening.

> I happen to catch drive activity and ran top to see what was up.

Sometimes I'm curious as to what's happening, and I also look to see
what's happening. Then I find out that it's nothing suspicious and stop
bothering.

> Now mandb is running like no tomorrow.

That's possibly because an update has added new man pages and the
database is being updated.

> Now gzip has kicked in.

And then it's being compressed.

> Lots of work I'm blind to.

Oh, if you're really curious, watch top for a while you'll see there's
an awful lot of things going on that you don't know about.


Regards,
David Bolt

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