Re: HELP A NEWBIE: user:nobody invoking find

1998-04-15 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Albert Hurd wrote: > Could anyone help me understand the following, and what to do about it: I can try :) . > Wheh I am on the net (with netscape 3.04) my disk suddenly begins > thrashing. A look at top shows a "find / ( -fstype" under user:nobody. > The rather extensive find explains the disk t

Re: HELP A NEWBIE: user:nobody invoking find

1998-04-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
George Bonser wrote: > On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Ossama Othman wrote: > > > I forgot to mention that the find operation is being run as the "nobody" > > user. Below is the command in /etc/cron.daily/find that probably starts > > the find process you mentioned: > > > > cd / && updatedb --localus

Re: HELP A NEWBIE: user:nobody invoking find

1998-04-15 Thread Ossama Othman
I forgot to mention that the find operation is being run as the "nobody" user. Below is the command in /etc/cron.daily/find that probably starts the find process you mentioned: cd / && updatedb --localuser=nobody 2>/dev/null -Ossama __

Re: HELP A NEWBIE: user:nobody invoking find

1998-04-15 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > Wheh I am on the net (with netscape 3.04) my disk suddenly begins > thrashing. A look at top shows a "find / ( -fstype" under user:nobody. > The rather extensive find explains the disk thrashing, but who is > nobody, > and how do I tell him to knock it off. This has happened twice on two >

HELP A NEWBIE: user:nobody invoking find

1998-04-15 Thread Albert Hurd
Could anyone help me understand the following, and what to do about it: Wheh I am on the net (with netscape 3.04) my disk suddenly begins thrashing. A look at top shows a "find / ( -fstype" under user:nobody. The rather extensive find explains the disk thrashing, but who is nobody, and how do I te