Re: Does this make sense?


Subject: Re: Does this make sense?
From: Mike Tibor (tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 23 2002 - 08:56:11 AKDT


On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Mike Mellor wrote:

> 24186 ? S 0:00 CROND
> 24187 ? S 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily
[...]
> 24715 ? SN 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron
> 24716 ? S 0:00 awk -v progname=/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron
> progname
> 24717 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -i -odi -oem root
> 24719 ? RN 0:22 /usr/bin/updatedb -f
> NFS,SMBFS,NCPFS,PROC,DEVPTS -e /
[...]

> My concern starts with CROND (not crond) at 24186, and continues down to
> sendmail at 24717. I use cron, but I don't know what's going on with
> CROND. Do I have a problem here, or is one of the servers (mysql, smb)
> doing this?

Nothing to worry about--that's just cron running the /etc/cron.daily
stuff, which happens to include the rebuilding of the "locate" database.
The sendmail process is there to email you the results of the cron job.
(and there probably won't be any output, so it won't email you anything)

Mike

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