Re: unidentified process
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:07:20 +0100
Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure this appeared after I did a wholesale packages
> upgrade on etch after it went from testing to stable.
>
> Does anybody know what it is? I'm v. tempted to kill it, if it wasn't
> for the suspicion that it might be useful.
>
>
> nobody 10620 10612 0 06:25 ? 00:00:00 su nobody -s /bin/sh
> -c /usr/bin/find / -ignore_readdir_race \( -fstype NFS -o
> -fstype nfs -o -fstype nfs4 -o -fstype afs -o -fstype binfmt_misc -o
> -fstype proc -o -fstype smbfs -o -fstype autofs -o -fstype iso9660 -o
> -fstype ncpfs -o -fstype coda -o -fstype devpts -o -fstype ftpfs -o
> -fstype devfs -o -fstype mfs -o -fstype shfs -o -fstype sysfs -o
> -fstype cifs -o -fstype lustre_lite -o -fstype tmpfs -o -fstype usbfs
> -o -fstype udf -o -type d -regex
> '\(^/tmp$\)\|\(^/usr/tmp$\)\|\(^/var/tmp$\)\|\(^/afs$\)\|\(^/amd$\)\|\(^/alex$\)\|\(^/var/spool$\)\|\(^/sfs$\)\|\(^/media$\)'
> \) -prune -o -print0 nobody 10621 10620 0 06:25 ?
> 00:00:00 /usr/bin/find / -ignore_readdir_race ( -fstype NFS -o
> -fstype nfs -o -fstype nfs4 -o -fstype afs -o -fstype binfmt_misc -o
> -fstype proc -o -fstype smbfs -o -fstype autofs -o -fstype iso9660 -o
> -fstype ncpfs -o -fstype coda -o -fstype devpts -o -fstype ftpfs -o
> -fstype devfs -o -fstype mfs -o -fstype shfs -o -fstype sysfs -o
> -fstype cifs -o -fstype lustre_lite -o -fstype tmpfs -o -fstype usbfs
> -o -fstype udf -o -type d -regex
> \(^/tmp$\)\|\(^/usr/tmp$\)\|\(^/var/tmp$\)\|\(^/afs$\)\|\(^/amd$\)\|\(^/alex$\)\|\(^/var/spool$\)\|\(^/sfs$\)\|\(^/media$\) )
> -prune -o -print0
It looks like the job /etc/cron.daily/find, which belongs to the
updatedb package. No harm in killing it if it doesn't complete after a
few minutes.
--
Liam
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