From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 10 12:57:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70DAD37B449 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 12:57:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (ppp2.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.17]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA28076; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 22:57:43 +0200 (GMT) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8ACmZ200550; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:48:35 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:48:35 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Scott Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Has my box been compromised? Message-ID: <20000910154835.C274@hades.hell.gr> References: <39BA0BE6.C49E2FE3@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <39BA0BE6.C49E2FE3@earthlink.net>; from digitalox@earthlink.net on Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 05:07:34AM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message