Isnt there a command call 'locate' which is simalir to find but about 1000 times faster (search your entire filesys in about 10 seconds) which works by examining the filesys every few hours? could be this which is running find
-----Original Message----- From: Oswald Buddenhagen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 April 2000 10:04 To: Mike Cook Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: find running in the backgound > Once a day, I hear my hard drive making a lot of noise, so i ran top and > discovered it was find running. What is its purpose and how can > I disable it? > it's a cron job. edit /etc/cron.daily/* to get rid of it. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
