Re: find running in the backgound
"Steven Satelle" <satelle@oceanfree.net> writes:
> 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.
Yes, Steven and Oswald are correct. Specifically it's a cron job
called updatedb (or very similiar) which updates the database that
"locate" uses.
Gary
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