On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 01:46:51AM -0500, Mike McNally wrote: > It concerns me when my machine grinds when I don't know why it's > grinding. I run top and it says find is running. Why? I do a grep -r > find /etc/cr* and the only things that come up run per crontab. Crontab > shows that all cron routines run around sunup... it's now 1:42 and my > linux box with a 24hr old install of debian was grinding at 1:10. is your clock correct? or perhaps you have anacron installed which runs cron jobs approximatly whenever it feels like it. the find process is normal, i think its the locate database being rebuilt. all my debian boxes do the same thing (except at 6:25, i don't use anacron) > Running ls -l /bin | grep rws I get: > -rws... root root for login mount ping ping6 su umount > > Are all of these programs normally setoid? yes these are normal, ping and ping6 (the ipv6 varient i guess) need to be suid root in order to open a raw socket. login needs to be suid root if you want to be able to do things like exec login to login as a new user without logging out first (rather pointless IMO and it only works on console ttys) mount and umount only need to be suid root if you have `user' /etc/fstab entries, such as /cdrom or /floppy, this way ordinary users can mount and umount the CDROM or floppy. su has to be suid root in order to work at all (changing uid's requires root privilege). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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