On 7/22/05, Daniel McBrearty <danielmcbrearty@gmail.com> wrote: > working on my box this morning I noticed some drive activity that > didn't seem to be connected to what I was doing. > > I did a top and saw find running as user nobody. It carried on for a > few more seconds and then the system was quiet. > Sounds like updatedb was running as a cron job. Check /etc/crontab and see if the time matches. -- swk