[ale] question about slackware 3.2

[Eric Z. Ayers]

The default slackware setup runs 'updatedb' every morning at 7:00 pm.
This creates a database for the 'update' command.  Check root's crontab
by logging as root and typing 'crontab -l' and you'll see the command
that's doing it.   

I love locate. I'm glad they (slakware folks) did this for no other
reason that now I know about the locate utility.

-Eric.

Josh Murrah writes:
 > 
 > I was checking my mail this morning on my linux box (Slackware 3.2), and I
 > noticed the hard drive was getting hit pretty hard.  I grabbed a rxvt
 > session and did a ps -auxww and found a "find -d -regexp (^tmp/)
 > (^var/tmp)" ... etc., or something close to that.  Does anybody know what
 > was going on?  Is that a periodoc command issued by Slackware?? I couldn't
 > find it in the crontab, and I'm a little wary.  I could find no rlogins or
 > in.telnet's and no rsh's that I could tell.  I'm sitting behind a firewall
 > so I don't know what to think.  Ohyeah, and no root logins other than the
 > ones that I knew were me.
 > 
 > TIA,
 > 
 > Joshua Murrah, jmurrah at salug.org, http://www.salug.org/~jmurrah
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