Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 01:46:51AM -0500, Mike McNally wrote: > > It concerns me when my machine grinds when I don't know why it's > > grinding. I run top and it says find is running. Why? I do a grep > -r > > find /etc/cr* and the only things that come up run per crontab. > Crontab > > shows that all cron routines run around sunup... it's now 1:42 and my > > linux box with a 24hr old install of debian was grinding at 1:10. > > is your clock correct? or perhaps you have anacron installed which > runs cron jobs approximatly whenever it feels like it.
Make that 5, 10 or 15 minutes after booting (if you use the default configuration). See `man anacrontab` and /etc/anacrontab. > the find process is normal, i think its the locate database being > rebuilt. all my debian boxes do the same thing (except at 6:25, i > don't use anacron) -- Olaf Meeuwissen Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development