From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 6:34:28 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 EB22637B4CF for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 06:34:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.03) id AC3F4B7011C; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 06:52:47 -0800 Message-ID: <3A1A88C9.2EE37BA5@wiegand.org> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 06:38:01 -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> <20001120191139.A12194@intacct.com> <3A1A0506.AC75E96C@wiegand.org> <20001121031225.A65525@intacct.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John P. Campbell wrote: > > Wading through the serious and not so serious responses, I hope you got your > answer. Explaining again: Yes, thankyou for you help. I did find the listings from grep. There is a lot of parameters, is that the correct term?, after each. I will have to learn what they mean. > In the directory /etc/periodic/daily there are a number of scripts. > In mine, they are named 110.clean-tmps, etc, etc. These scripts contain > commands that run each day. find is most likely one of them. You can see this > by running the following commands: > > cd /etc/periodic/daily > grep find * Yes, it is there on five lines. > This looks for the string 'find' in any file in the current directory. There > are two other directories in /etc/periodic: weekly and monthly. These are the > scripts that run weekly and monthly respectively. > > If you need more help, feel free to write. Once again, thank you for your help. -- Chip > jpc > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:15:50PM -0800, owner-freebsd-questions @ FreeBSD . ORG Mon Nov 20 21 wrote: > > John P. Campbell wrote: > > > > > > 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 * > > > > I tried this command as you have it shown above and get > > daily: command not found > > Besides that, in my daily directory is a whole bunch of stuff, > > and > > find is not amoung any of it. Should it be? It's not any big > > deal, > > I'm just curious where it's starting and what is telling it to > > start. None of the other fbsd machines do this. > > > > -- > > Chip > > > > > 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 > > > > -- > > 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 > Intacct Corporation > - "Good judgement comes from experience. > Experience comes from bad judgement." -- 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