RE: find running in the backgound
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:ob6@inf.tu-dresden.de]
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.
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