Topic: Why is my hard drive running??

[Jeremy]

I have just setup my E-smith server to act as a firewall, and before I had a chance to set it up I noticed that the hard dirve led is going crazy. Anyone know why this is, or if this is a common thing?

Also, I tried to install the 5.5 update2 but when I use the "rpm -q smeserver" command it doesn't list it as installed.
I'm new to linux so maybe I made a mistake on installing it. Can someone please let me know if you see a problem with the way I installed it? Here are the commands I used to install the update:

rpm -ivh --nodeps SMEServer-5.5_Update2-10.noarch.rpm

rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs *.rpm
    /sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
    /sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot

[Jon Blakely]

If you have set up your server as software raid it can take quite a few hours for both disks to synchronise. Once synchronised the disk activity will slow down.

Jon

[Jeremy]

Thanks, that must be it. Any idea about what I'm doing wrong with the 5.5 update2?

[Andy Parkinson]

The  update 2 for 5.5 is about 20 separate files that you install as follows (not just one file).

    rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs *.rpm

Then initiate a post-upgrade event followed by a system reboot

    /sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
    /sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot


The files can be downloaded from here
ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/updates/5.5/Update2/RPMS