Preventing disk writes

[Dave Farrance]

Till Kamppeter 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?
>
> AFAIR this is fixed in CUPS 1.2.0. If not, file a bug report on
> http://www.cups.org/str.php

Thanks. I forgot to mention that I was using Cups 1.1.23 that came with Mandriva-2006, so I'm using an outdated version.