Preventing disk writes

[Dave Farrance]

Michael Sweet wrote:
>
> Dave Farrance wrote:
> > At the moment, the only thing stopping my hard disk from spinning
> > down when I leave my PC is the repetitive write by CUPS to
> > /etc/cups/certs/0 every 5 minutes. Is there a way to get around this?
>
> Change the RootCertDuration directive to 0 in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.

Thanks. That worked. My disk spins down now.   :)