On Thursday 26 September 2002 10:05, 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 ?
Get up at the same time tommorow morning and it will be doing the same thing. Like Ray said, its a normal system update. > > Regards, Chuck -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - 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
