Re: HELP A NEWBIE: user:nobody invoking find
George Bonser wrote:
> 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.
Somebody should tell the original poster *what* uses it!
Check out the very cool `locate' command to quickly find any word-readable
file on your system.
The associated `updatedb' command that accesses the disks is usually setup
to run at 6AM. Edit /etc/crontab if this doesn't suit your use. I'm
usually sleeping when mine runs!
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