From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 9: 1:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A28637BAF5; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 09:01:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13MYHP-000DTx-00; Wed, 09 Aug 2000 17:00:31 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13MYHR-0009N4-00; Wed, 09 Aug 2000 17:00:33 +0100 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 17:00:33 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Mark Ovens Cc: Thomas Good , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nobody versus FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000809170033.C48327@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000809125157.B251@parish> <20000809141108.F251@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000809141108.F251@parish> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Ovens wrote: > ``nobody'' is the user that the scripts in /etc/periodic run. Not all of them, the only script which runs as ``nobody'' is the one to update the locate(1) database. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D FreeBSD Documentation Project / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message