On Mon, 18 May 1998, David Spencer wrote:
> Every morning, about 1am, my disk goes bananas and top shows that nobody
> is doing a find and a sort, presumably find ... | sort > ... Anyone got
> any ideas what nobody is looking for, and how I can tell him to get
> stuffed or do it when I'm not using the machine? I've grepped all over
> the place but the words "needle" and "haystack" come to mind... :-(
If it something happens like clockwork, think crontab. In this case, it's
/etc/crontab starting the daily jobs at 1:02am. The daily job you are
getting pegged by is updatedb (see /etc/cron.daily/). Reschedule your
/etc/crontab to suit your schedule.
Mike
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