On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, tf wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions > about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...) > > but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago, > when I noticed alot of disk activity. I checked top and saw that user > nobody issued a find command. I just disconnected. Guess I should > change my password.
Actually, it was proably a cron job running updatedb(1), wich is the command used to update the locate(1) database. If you havn't discovered locate(1) yet, cheak it out, it's a really useful command. -Levi P.S. Most holes in un*x (linux included) aren't password related.
