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.