Makes sense. thanks
DvB
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> The cron daemon.
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> man cron
> man at
> man atq
> man anacron
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> Have a look at your crontab file - it controls what starts up, how often
> and at what time. It's a scheduler running constantly. In your case, it may
> have been cleaning your /tmp directry, rebuilding your RPM database or
> several other things.
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> For example, ever month, on the 1st day, at 0300 hours, my machine goes
> through the entire machine, moving any files which end in ~ (normally
> backup files from kedit) into a backup directory. On the 14th of the month,
> it empies this backup directory. Cron controls the running of these
> scripts. It's really very useful....
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> Steve Flynn
> IBM MVS Operations Analyst
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> David van Balen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 16/02/2000 02:06:21
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> Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc: (bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM)
> Subject: [newbie] random 'find' process
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> I have noticed that my computer will often go into periods of furious disk
> access at very odd hours so, last time it happened, I decided to take a
> look and see what was going on (I also wanted to get to sleep).
> My search turned up a find process running as root for no apparent reason
> at all so I proceeded to shut down all applications that were running and
> kill it, after which the disk activity stopped. Any idea what may have
> spawned the find process?
> I was running, as far as I can remember, the following:
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> -Netscape
> -a couple Konsoles
> -LICQ
> -Grip (the cd player)
> -xmms
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> None of them should've been doing anything special (i.e. downloading,
> playing music, etc.)
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> DvB
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