On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 01:01:37PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> If you're going to do this -- and I would consider it a security hole --
> hint: anyone cracking your box now can find what's in files --
Doh! No, the contents aren't available, but the names are.
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On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 01:01:37PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> If you're going to do this -- and I would consider it a security hole --
> hint: anyone cracking your box now can find what's in files --
> I'd recommend dumping the results to a root-owned file, readable only by
> root, an
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 02:55:03PM -0400, David Teague wrote:
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> The locate command can only locate files that the user running
> updatedb can see. I find locate to be useful if you make it run with
> root priv. Some claim this is an invasion of privacy and a security
> hole. This is true o
are support is free, timely,
useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
(I hope this is all of the above.)
> -Original Message-
> From: Oswald Buddenhagen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 25 April 2000 10:04
> To: Mike Cook
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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ich 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 d
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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
> 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.
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On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Mike Cook wrote:
> 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?
You probably don't want to do that, it is updating your locate database.
See "man locate" for more inf
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 01:32:54 CDT, Mike Cook writes:
>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?
That´s probably updatedb running updating your locatedb :)
It is called via /etc/cron.daily
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 01:32:54AM -0500, Mike Cook wrote:
> 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?
>
> Thanks
That's the 'updatedb' cron script running. You probably don't want to
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