On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Jose Vicente Nunez Zuleta wrote:
> root 30439 1 0 Jul19 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/updatedb -f NFS,SMBFS,N
> root 951 1 0 Jul20 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/updatedb -f NFS,SMBFS,N
> root 3886 1 0 Jul21 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/updatedb -f NFS,SMBFS,N
> root 13318 1 0 Jul22 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/updatedb -f NFS,SMBFS,N
>
> I tried killing them (even with -9) but they are still there :(
Run pstree or "ps -ax --forest" to see what process owns those updatedb
processes. My guess is it will be cron. You can simply try restarting your
cron daemon if that's the case.
Updatedb is the program responsible for creating the locate database, so
you may want to dig into that a little deeper.
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friendship I share with my collection of singing potatoes."
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