"Steven Satelle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Isnt there a command call 'locate' which is simalir to find but about 1000 > times faster (search your entire filesys in about 10 seconds) which works by > examining the filesys every few hours? > could be this which is running find > > -----Original Message----- > From: Oswald Buddenhagen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 April 2000 10:04 > To: Mike Cook > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: find running in the backgound > > > > Once a day, I hear my hard drive making a lot of noise, so i ran top and > > discovered it was find running. What is its purpose and how can > > I disable it? > > > it's a cron job. edit /etc/cron.daily/* to get rid of it.
Yes, Steven and Oswald are correct. Specifically it's a cron job called updatedb (or very similiar) which updates the database that "locate" uses. Gary
