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Re: Nobody user doing a find / ( -fstype ?????



> 
> Hello ppl!
> 
> I just noticed when running top that a process owned by nobody was doing 
> a scan of / with and -fstype argument...?  I am not sure what it is but 
> can someone kindly explain me?  

It is a cron job updating a database.
See man cron and /etc/cron.daily/find

> Maybe I should start looking for security patches for Linux (Debian) huh? ;)

Well, that may be a good idea anyway.

Eric

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