From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 20 19:12:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jericho.intacct.com (ip74-203.intacct.com [64.7.74.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2D3437B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 19:12:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jcampbell@localhost) by jericho.intacct.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA12213; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 19:11:39 -0800 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 19:11:39 -0800 From: "John P. Campbell" To: Chip Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: 'find' is running all by itself Message-ID: <20001120191139.A12194@intacct.com> Reply-To: jcampbell@intacct.com References: <3A19E749.E9E048E2@wiegand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5-current-20000901i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A look at /etc/periodic/daily on my box shows that find runs quite often. It's a good chance that is what you are seeing. : jpc % cd /etc/periodic/daily/ : daily % grep find * 100.clean-disks:find / \( ! -fstype local -o -fstype rdonly \) -a -prune -o \ 110.clean-tmps: find . -type f -atime +3 -ctime +3 ! -name '.X*-lock' \ 110.clean-tmps: find -d . ! -name . -type d -mtime +1 -delete 110.clean-tmps: find . ! -name . -atime +7 -ctime +3 -delete 110.clean-tmps: find -d . ! -name . ! -name vi.recover -type d -mtime +1 -delete 120.clean-preserve: cd /var/preserve && find . ! -name . -mtime +7 -delete 140.clean-rwho: cd /var/rwho && find . ! -name . -mtime +7 -delete 150.clean-hoststat: cd /var/spool/.hoststat && find * -mtime +3 -delete jpc On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 07:08:57PM -0800, owner-freebsd-questions @ FreeBSD . ORG Mon Nov 20 19 wrote: > I have several FBSD 4.0 machines, and on one of them > the 'find' command will start running by itself. I found > out about this when I heard the hard drive reading itself > wildly, so I looked at top, and there was find at the top. > This happens at least every evening, sometimes several times. > This machine has mysql installed, and nothing much else, just > a straight install of 4.0. > Any ideas what could be causing this? > > -- > Chip W. > www.wiegand.org > Alternative Operating Systems > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- John P. Campbell Application Engineer Intacct Corporation 408-395-0961 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message