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Re: HELP A NEWBIE: user:nobody invoking find



On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote:

> I forgot to mention that the find operation is being run as the "nobody"
> user.  Below is the command in /etc/cron.daily/find that probably starts
> the find process you mentioned:
> 
> 	cd / && updatedb --localuser=nobody 2>/dev/null
> 

Ok, this is the daily updatedb that is run from cron. This is a friendly
program. In exchange for the disk activity, you get a system that can find
things faster when needed.  


George Bonser

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