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Date:      Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:34:34 -0500
From:      Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
To:        brad clawsie <clawsie@fastmail.fm>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: curious root find running
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.2.20070817063356.026581f8@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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At 05:19 AM 8/17/2007, brad clawsie wrote:
>hi
>
>while sitting at my computer tonight i noticed a great deal of disk
>activity. i found that this process was running:
>
>$ ps -auxwww 1463
>USER   PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ   RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
>root  1463  4.3  0.1  1876  1404  ??  D     3:01AM   0:07.26 find /usr
>-xdev -type f ( -perm -u+x -or -perm -g+x -or -perm -o+x ) ( -perm
>-u+s -or -perm -g+s ) -print0
>
>any idea why this is running? is it part of a sanctioned background
>process?

Check your cron jobs.  It is likely part of a rebuild of the locate database.

         -Derek

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