[ale] unknown programs [seemingly] auto running under RedHat6.1.......

[Keith Hopkins]

Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Greetings !
> 
> Last night I noticed "slocate" and "mdrecoveryd" running. I didn't run 
> them. What are they and how can I best determine who/what is causing this ?
> 
> Appreciatively,
> Courtney
> 
> 

Hi Courtney,

mdrecoveryd is VERY important system process if you are using the md (multi-device) drivers, a.k.a. software-raid.  It is a system process that is spawned at boot time, and has a very high priority (usually -20).
slocate is a security enhanced version of locate.  It should run nightly, probably as part of a night cron job, but not all the time.  It is used to build the database used by the locate command.

Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith


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