Re: find - sort - locate.big...
Re: find - sort - locate.big...
- Subject: Re: find - sort - locate.big...
- From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 09:33:12 -0700
On May 13, 2006, at 7:35 AM, Lorenzo wrote:
Time to time, while I am working on XCode,
I hear a disk activity, so I launch the Terminal and type "top"
and I see that the "find" command is taking 86% of the CPU. Then
the command
"sort", then the command "located.big" , then "located.cod".
Do you know what's that? Is it a normal activity or could it be
dangerous
for my code?
It is the locate database being rebuilt/updated. By running as user
nobody, the commands have minimal access to security critical areas
of the system.
See 'man locate'.
x-man-page://locate
b.bum
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