On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 09:59:54AM -0500, Gianguido Cianci wrote: > a few minutes ago I heard my PC getting into a lot of fuss over something, > the HDD was spinning like crazy... so I looked at "top" and found that user > > "nobody" was running a "find" comand....
You were not hacked into. (1) look at /etc/crontab (2) look at /etc/cron.daily/* (3) look at /etc/cron.daily/find (4) man updatedb Basically, all the things in /etc/cron.daily are run at 6h25 every morning. /etc/cron.daily/find updates the database of file names used by the locate command line utility by calleing updatedb as user 'nobody'. Luca -- Luca Filipozzi [dpkg] We are the apt. Resistance is futile. You will be packaged. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
