At 06:05 AM 9/26/02 -0400, Chuck Gelm wrote: >G'day, Y'all: > > I awoke at 04:40 AM today when the internal speaker of my >Win2k boxen started sounding a tone. While I was up shutting >it down, I noticed the HD activity lamp on my linux firewall >was indicating activity. I selected the console window where >I leave 'top' running. I found that 'find' and 'sort' were >being run by 'nobody'. I've installed no 'at' or 'cron' jobs. >It is a Slackware v8.0, kernel 2.2.19, custom compile system. > >'who' showed my console logins only. > >Why was 'find' and 'sort' running at 4:40 AM ?
One can only guess. My guess would be that even though *you* didn't install any cron jobs, the install itself did so. The obvious candidate is an update of the locate database. See if "updatedb" is also running at this time. See if there is a cron script that runs either find or updatedb or both (on my systems, it is /etc/cron.daily/find, but I've no idea how standard this location is). If that is not it, I'd look through the scripts in the /etc/cron.* directories, or their analogs on our system, for a candidate. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
