On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:38:33AM +0000, Satish Iyer wrote: > Hi, > I have installed Woody 3.0 r0 on my desktop > system. At times I notice a process with high disk > activity running under user name "nobody". How can I > figure out which program is responsible for this and > what exactly is it upto?
The nobody user is a user who corresponds to, well, no one at all. This user should never own files and is sometimes used in system scripts. For example, take a look at /etc/cron.daily/find which I guess is your culprit. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] When you're in command, command. -- Adm. Chester W. Nimitz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
