Howdy, Dragos LUNGU: Thanks. You are right. I did a 'cat' and that was the only line!
Geesh, I added 'updatedb' to rc.local thinking that I was updating my database. It would have happened at the next 04:40 anyway! :-| I guess that I will remove that line from my rc.local from all my linux boxes. Regards, Chuck Dragos LUNGU wrote: > > Hi, > > Chuck Gelm wrote: > > G'day, Y'all: > [snip] > > > > Why was 'find' and 'sort' running at 4:40 AM ? > > My guess is : updatedb > > i did a grep on /var/spool/* and this is what came out : > > /var/spool/cron/crontabs/nobody:40 04 * * * cd / ; updatedb 1> > /dev/null 2> /dev/null > > -> updatedb at 4.40 AM as nobody > > slackware 8.0 here as well, and I'm sure I didn't write that cron job > myself. > > hope it helps, > > Dragos. > > > > > Regards, Chuck > > -- > > | Dragos LUNGU > | > | http://www.xts.ro > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | mobile (+40)745 379 734 > | office (+40)251 190 561 - 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
