The cron daemon.
man cron
man at
man atq
man anacron
Have a look at your crontab file - it controls what starts up, how often
and at what time. It's a scheduler running constantly. In your case, it may
have been cleaning your /tmp directry, rebuilding your RPM database or
several other things.
For example, ever month, on the 1st day, at 0300 hours, my machine goes
through the entire machine, moving any files which end in ~ (normally
backup files from kedit) into a backup directory. On the 14th of the month,
it empies this backup directory. Cron controls the running of these
scripts. It's really very useful....
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
David van Balen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 16/02/2000 02:06:21
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Subject: [newbie] random 'find' process
I have noticed that my computer will often go into periods of furious disk
access at very odd hours so, last time it happened, I decided to take a
look and see what was going on (I also wanted to get to sleep).
My search turned up a find process running as root for no apparent reason
at all so I proceeded to shut down all applications that were running and
kill it, after which the disk activity stopped. Any idea what may have
spawned the find process?
I was running, as far as I can remember, the following:
-Netscape
-a couple Konsoles
-LICQ
-Grip (the cd player)
-xmms
None of them should've been doing anything special (i.e. downloading,
playing music, etc.)
DvB
