Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:34:34 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: brad clawsie <clawsie@fastmail.fm>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: curious root find running Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20070817063356.026581f8@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <20070817101935.GA1064@localhost.gateway.2wire.net> References: <20070817101935.GA1064@localhost.gateway.2wire.net>
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At 05:19 AM 8/17/2007, 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?
Check your cron jobs. It is likely part of a rebuild of the locate database.
-Derek
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