On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Pradnyesh Sawant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > today I noticed heavy disk utilization. I did top to find this:- > ********************************************************************** > nobody 10204 10203 6 10:06 ? 00:00:05 /usr/bin/find / > -ignore_readdir_race ( -fstype NFS -o -fstype nfs -o -fstype nfs4 -o -fstype > ********************************************************************** > > can somebody kindly throw some light on this _nobody_ and what is he doing > on my m/c? >
nobody it the user NFS uses for its functioning. It is a valid Linux user. Its GID is 65535 I think. grep nobody /etc/passwd Regards, NMK. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
