Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
> Anyone know what causes Star Office to access my hard drive every
> few seconds and how to make it stop that?

When I loaded Star Office (just recently), it had a long warning at the beginning of the setup listing several things to do. I imagine that a lot of people ignored this message. One of the things it said was to set the environment variable "STAR_SPOOL_DIR" to equal "/tmp". In the bash shell that would be:

export STAR_SPOOL_DIR=/tmp

You might try this if you didn't do it during SO setup. I hope this helps.

documented on: 2000.10.24