On 19-Sep-99 dyer wrote: > 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. >> > > May be wrong, but it was probably cron running your locate database > update.
Isn't that locate database updated with 'updatedb' and not with 'find'? I do think it was *something* in cron.daily or other cron. -- Andrew