RE: tlug: what happened?

[Thomas Bätzler <tbaetzle@example.com>]

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>tlug note from Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>

>A strange thing happened this morning as I was reading mail
>off-line. The hard drive started making a lot of noise as if
>processing a heavy load. 
[...]
>Using top I check again and there was a find / (nsf...
>something (I couldn't see if the line continued) followed by
>sort, more find .. more sort then a quick frcode then the pid
>exited. All this was run as root. As this is a stand alone box
>and I was logged in as jim - not root I assume this was some
>kind of file/system check..

Sounds like the usual updatedb command that builds the
locate database. At least on my Debian system it's installed
as a default.

Ciao,
Thomas
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