Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 13:59:47 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net> Cc: youlgok@attglobal.net, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Q] USER nobody Message-ID: <20000826135947.D254@parish> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008260414220.3837-100000@earth.wnm.net>; from alex@wnm.net on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 04:20:03AM -0500 References: <39A776DA.8BBA7153@attglobal.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008260414220.3837-100000@earth.wnm.net>
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On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 04:20:03AM -0500, Alex Charalabidis wrote: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 youlgok@attglobal.net wrote: > > > I commanded this while the hard disk drive is suddenly moveing so fast : > > ps -aux > > and there's "USER nobody" on the list and it runs several processes > > including su. > > What is this USER nobody? Is this normal or someone's hacking my > > computer? When I > > command w or who, it displays only me. I'm the only user. > > > User nobody is a special user, used mostly with programs that need only > minimal privileges on the machine. The 'su' means that something is su'ed > TO nobody and not that 'nobody' is su'ing to another user. Can't really > tell what might be going on, you're not giving us enough info to work > with. Show us some of the processes and let us know what services the > machine is running. > /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate which rebuilds the locate(1) database runs as user ``nobody'' (and, as you would expect, generates a lot of disk activity). It runs at 3:30 every Saturday, which looking at the time of your post, suggests that is what was running. > -ac > > -- > ============================================================== > Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 > System Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 > WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 > Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ > ============================================================== > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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