From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 20 21:12:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (pop3.pioneernet.net [208.240.196.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F7CF37B4D7 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:12:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.03) id A87E31000D2; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:30:38 -0800 Message-ID: <3A1A0506.AC75E96C@wiegand.org> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:15:50 -0800 From: Chip X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: 'find' is running all by itself References: <3A19E749.E9E048E2@wiegand.org> <20001120191139.A12194@intacct.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John P. Campbell wrote: > > A look at /etc/periodic/daily on my box shows that find runs quite often. > It's a good chance that is what you are seeing. > > : jpc % cd /etc/periodic/daily/ > : daily % grep find * I tried this command as you have it shown above and get daily: command not found Besides that, in my daily directory is a whole bunch of stuff, and find is not amoung any of it. Should it be? It's not any big deal, I'm just curious where it's starting and what is telling it to start. None of the other fbsd machines do this. -- Chip > 100.clean-disks:find / \( ! -fstype local -o -fstype rdonly \) -a -prune -o \ > 110.clean-tmps: find . -type f -atime +3 -ctime +3 ! -name '.X*-lock' \ > 110.clean-tmps: find -d . ! -name . -type d -mtime +1 -delete > 110.clean-tmps: find . ! -name . -atime +7 -ctime +3 -delete > 110.clean-tmps: find -d . ! -name . ! -name vi.recover -type d -mtime +1 > -delete > 120.clean-preserve: cd /var/preserve && find . ! -name . -mtime +7 -delete > 140.clean-rwho: cd /var/rwho && find . ! -name . -mtime +7 -delete > 150.clean-hoststat: cd /var/spool/.hoststat && find * -mtime +3 -delete > > jpc > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 07:08:57PM -0800, owner-freebsd-questions @ FreeBSD . ORG Mon Nov 20 19 wrote: > > I have several FBSD 4.0 machines, and on one of them > > the 'find' command will start running by itself. I found > > out about this when I heard the hard drive reading itself > > wildly, so I looked at top, and there was find at the top. > > This happens at least every evening, sometimes several times. > > This machine has mysql installed, and nothing much else, just > > a straight install of 4.0. > > Any ideas what could be causing this? > > > > -- > > Chip W. > > www.wiegand.org > > Alternative Operating Systems > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- > John P. Campbell > Application Engineer > Intacct Corporation > 408-395-0961 -- Chip W. www.wiegand.org Alternative Operating Systems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message