From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 6:31:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (pop3.pioneernet.net [208.240.196.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49F2037B6C7 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 06:31:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.03) id AB813D60100; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 06:49:37 -0800 Message-ID: <3A1A880A.25BC4A01@wiegand.org> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 06:34:50 -0800 From: Chip X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: 'find' is running all by itself References: <3A19E749.E9E048E2@wiegand.org> <20001120191139.A12194@intacct.com> <3A1A0506.AC75E96C@wiegand.org> <00112117251600.37336@shalimar.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Zero Sum wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 November 2000 16:15, Chip wrote: > > John P. Campbell wrote: > > > > > > A look at /etc/periodic/daily on my box shows that find runs quite > often. > > > It's a good chance that is what you are seeing. > > > > > > : jpc % cd /etc/periodic/daily/ > > > : daily % grep find * > > > > I tried this command as you have it shown above and get > > daily: command not found > > Besides that, in my daily directory is a whole bunch of stuff, > > and > > find is not amoung any of it. Should it be? It's not any big > > deal, > > I'm just curious where it's starting and what is telling it to > > start. None of the other fbsd machines do this. > > > > This is a joke, right? > > You didn't really fail to recognise the '%' as a c-shell prompt, did you? > > You didn't type "daily % grep find *" instead of "grep find *", did you? > > You weren't really expecting the 'find' command to be there were you? > > If the answer to ANY one of the aboce was yes, then you need to get > yourself some basic books on Unix. Asking questions here won't do you much > good as you won't understand the answers. > > The explanation that was given you was most probably accurate. You > mightcheck the system time, though. > > Geoff > -- > count@shalimar.net.au > Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione I am quite sure that you too were once a beginner in the *nix environment. I doubt very much that you were born with all this great store house of knowledge. Maybe it has been so long that you have forgotten those days of learning though, and now don't have the patience for people who are learning, so feel compelled to lash out at them in a childish manner. A serious question should only be returned with a serious answer, which most people on this list do. You appear to be an exception, I'm sorry. -- Chip W. www.wiegand.org Alternative Operating Systems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message