Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:48:35 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Scott <digitalox@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Has my box been compromised? Message-ID: <20000910154835.C274@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <39BA0BE6.C49E2FE3@earthlink.net>; from digitalox@earthlink.net on Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 05:07:34AM -0500 References: <39BA0BE6.C49E2FE3@earthlink.net>
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> I was surfing on my dsl line (dynamic ip) a few minutes ago and
> noticed my hard drive was churning even though I wasn't doing much.
By now you know that what makes your disks go wild at approx 02:00 local
time every day is the cron daemon running the script "periodic" for
various daily maintenance and checking jobs.
You can find exactly what cron runs by reading through /etc/crontab.
The line that starts periodic is:
59 1 * * * root periodic daily 2>&1 | sendmail root
and you can see exactly what scripts periodic executes by browsing
through /etc/periodic/daily.
- giorgos
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