Re: /usr/sbin/find
On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 08:02:21AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> Every morning, at abut 7:15 or 7:30 a.m., some processes eat my scarse
> resources, some owned by nobody, /usr/sbin/find; most likely updating the
> database used by locate, and so forth. This timing is very bad for me, I
> would rather have that done during the night. I havelooked for any cron
> scheduled works, but I haven't been able to find one. Where should I look
> for them?
> It seems that I haven't run any crontab till now, I am the only user and
> root, so there is no other possibility.
cron not only runs user crontabs, but also /etc/crontab (syntax is a bit
different), which runs scripts in /etc/cron.{daily,monthly,weekly}.
You can change the times there.
Cron also parses /etc/cron.d/*
Frank
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