Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:39:40 +0700 From: "Anh Ky Huynh" <kyanh@viettug.org> To: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange find process Message-ID: <20091227153940.5ce942b8@icy.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <hh3l3t$96k$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <20091226042600.1920a0e1@icy.localdomain> <hh3l3t$96k$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:24:04 -0500
Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Anh Ky Huynh wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > At 2:00 am today, I turned my laptop on and suddenly found a
> > strange process:
> >
> > $ ps xauw | grep find
> > ... find -sx ./bin -type f
> > ( -perm -u+x -or -perm -g+x -or -perm -o+x )
> > ( -perm -u+s -or -perm -g+s ) -exec ls -liTd {} +
> >
> > What is the purpose of this process? If that is a system check
> > then where is the log file?
>
> There are some scripts called periodic which execute and perform
> various different things depending upon whether it is a daily,
> weekly, or monthly. The output will get emailed to root, or
> redirected to an alias of root.
>
> The above looks strangely enough like a snippet of this activity.
> The daily usually runs every morning here at 3AM, the weekly
> rebuilds the locate and whatis database something like 4:15AM
> Saturday morning, and the monthly is an end of the month count of
> login activity.
>
> More info can be found in man periodic. There is a periodic.conf in
> /etc/defaults, and the scripts themselves live in /etc/periodic and
> you can take a look. My bet is you stumbled upon one of the
> periodic script runs.
>
Thank you very much, Michael.
The `periodic` is mentioned in the Handbook but I seem to leave it too soon.
FreeBSD is so funny :)
Regards,
--
Anh Ky Huynh
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