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Date:      Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:21:44 +0100
From:      Hugo Silva <hugo@barafranca.com>
To:        brad clawsie <clawsie@fastmail.fm>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: curious root find running
Message-ID:  <46C584C8.4090805@barafranca.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070817101935.GA1064@localhost.gateway.2wire.net>
References:  <20070817101935.GA1064@localhost.gateway.2wire.net>

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brad clawsie wrote:
> hi
>
> while sitting at my computer tonight i noticed a great deal of disk
> activity. i found that this process was running:
>
> $ ps -auxwww 1463
> USER   PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ   RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
> root  1463  4.3  0.1  1876  1404  ??  D     3:01AM   0:07.26 find /usr
> -xdev -type f ( -perm -u+x -or -perm -g+x -or -perm -o+x ) ( -perm
> -u+s -or -perm -g+s ) -print0
>
> any idea why this is running? is it part of a sanctioned background
> process?
>
> thanks!
> brad
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man periodic

Hugo



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