[NTLUG:Discuss] What is this?

Wayne Dahl w.dahl4 at verizon.net
Fri Jul 2 12:25:22 CDT 2004


Something is going on with this system that I don't know and would like
to know if this is a problem or not.  Occasionally, if I check running
processes, I see awk, slocate.cron and updatedb running and don't know
why.  The contents of slocate.cron is given below...

#!/bin/sh
renice +19 -p $$ >/dev/null 2>&1
/usr/bin/updatedb -f "nfs,smbfs,ncpfs,proc,devpts" -e 
"/tmp,/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net"

The fourth line was wrapped, so there are only 3 lines to it.  What
exactly is this doing?  I'm not a programmer and probably never will be,
but when I see processes running that I don't know about and didn't
initiate (I understand the idea behind cron and hope this is just
something running as it gets the opportunity because this computer stays
turned off most of the time).

Thanks for any input you can give.

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Wayne Dahl
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