Re: mail and security
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
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