From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 20 21:15:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (pop3.pioneernet.net [208.240.196.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FF8E37B4CF for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.03) id A9382CF00A6; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:33:44 -0800 Message-ID: <3A1A05BE.BB3C9DE2@wiegand.org> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:18:54 -0800 From: Chip X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: 'find' is running all by itself References: <3A19E749.E9E048E2@wiegand.org> <20001120191022.A11404@skritz.go2net.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Garcia wrote: > > Yep, sounds like you have 'updatedb' running Yep, that is listed in the weekly directory, find isn't listed in daily, weekly, or monthly. > This maps out your fs to a db file so you can run such, `locate *.so` and find alot of stuff :-D I tried the locate command like you show it, but got command not known, I'll look at the man pages and manuals to find out more about that command. -- Chip > ->MAG > > In a stroke of genius on Mon, Nov 20 at 19:08:57 00 or thereabouts, Chip 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 -- 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