Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 23:57:29 -0600 (CST) From: Joshua Delong Thomas <jdt2101@ksu.edu> To: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 'find' is running all by itself Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21L.0011212356030.17942-100000@unix1.cc.ksu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3A1A0506.AC75E96C@wiegand.org>
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Find gets run when the locate database is updated. The default is to run once a week, I believe, but you could change the frequency. On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Chip 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. > > > > <rubina>: jpc % cd /etc/periodic/daily/ > > <rubina>: 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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