From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 22:31:39 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 2808F37B4CF for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:31:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.03) id AC9955B00A0; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:50:01 -0800 Message-ID: <3A1B6925.514538CF@wiegand.org> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:35:17 -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: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joshua Delong Thomas wrote: > > 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. What I find most interesting about this is this - I have 6 fbsd machines and they all have the same results from 'grep find *' in the daily directory. But I have only seen it actually do anything on the one machine. All of the machines except one, run fbsd 4.0-release, the other 4.1.1-r. Is there something else going on that may cause this to not run, I guess I am looking for something that would turn it on or off, a conf file somewhere? Really, it's no big deal, I am just curious about this happening on one in six machines. If there are specific docs somewhere maybe someone could point me in the right direction? I tried man periodic but that gives me a small amount of info about motif widgets, I don't think that's the same subject. There is no man entrys for daily, weekly or monthly. I also looked in my 4 unix books and one fbsd book for periodic, monthly, daily, and schedule, but came up with nothing that relates to this subject. Obviously I am missing a key word to search for, what is it? -- Chip -- previous irrelevant stuff snipped -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message