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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, David Balazic wrote:

> It would probaly be on if the drive motor is on.

Laptops will be _really_ unhappy about it.

> The system could just read somthing from the disk every now and then.
> That would make either a turned on LED or a flashing LED ( even cooler
> :-)

... and laptop owners will be not just unhappy, but visibly unhappy.
Besides, extra heat in the box is _not_ a good idea in all cases.
Recommended mode with tripwire is to store the database on the read-only
media. The most trivial variant being to put write-protected floppy into
the old drive and mount it on /usr/lib/tripwire. Having it constantly
spinning... No, thanks.


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