updatedb runs every morning updating the database for the locate
command.
Thanks,
Paul Hostetler
David Spencer wrote:
>
> Every morning, about 1am, my disk goes bananas and top shows that nobody
> is doing a find and a sort, presumably find ... | sort > ... Anyone got
> any ideas what nobody is looking for, and how I can tell him to get
> stuffed or do it when I'm not using the machine? I've grepped all over
> the place but the words "needle" and "haystack" come to mind... :-(
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dave.
>
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