On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, James Yeung wrote:
> My system is going haywire! I just installed Linux, and I haven't put
> anything on it. Yet this is what "ps" shows:
>
> /usr/bin
> nobody 581 0.0 0.4 1192 588 ? S Apr 14 0:00 sh -c
> /usr/bin/update
> nobody 582 0.0 0.4 1208 628 ? S Apr 14 0:00 sh
> /usr/bin/updatedb
> nobody 612 0.0 0.4 1212 636 ? S Apr 14 0:00 sh
> /usr/bin/updatedb
> nobody 613 98.8 0.3 844 460 ? R Apr 14 1449:55 find / (
> -fstype nfs
> nobody 614 0.0 1.0 1820 1300 ? S Apr 14 0:00 sort -f
> nobody 615 0.0 0.1 728 252 ? S Apr 14 0:00 frcode
> nobody 983 0.0 0.5 1440 656 ? S 04:02 0:00 su nobody -c
> /usr/bin
> nobody 984 0.0 0.4 1192 616 ? S 04:02 0:00 sh -c
> /usr/bin/update
> nobody 985 0.0 0.5 1208 664 ? S 04:02 0:00 sh
> /usr/bin/updatedb
> nobody 1015 0.0 0.5 1212 672 ? S 04:02 0:00 sh
> /usr/bin/updatedb
> nobody 1016 53.2 0.3 844 488 ? R 04:02 14:08 find / (
> -fstype nfs
> nobody 1017 0.0 1.0 1820 1376 ? S 04:02 0:00 sort -f
> nobody 1018 0.0 0.2 728 280 ? S 04:02 0:00 frcode
See all those processes being run by nobody?
They're updating your locate database. This usually happens as part of
a cronjob. I believe the default in RH is to have it run at 3:00am
every morning. Other distros do something similar. Nothing to worry about.
RHP
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