Re: Partial TOC for Comment]

[Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:09:56PM -0700, Conan Callen wrote:

> On a different topic (installing linux and immediatly getting cracked):
> An interesting note. As soon as I finished installing Linux lastnight, I
> noticed the hard drive start whirling like someone was there doing searches
> of my hard drive. This morning I got the same thing. I ran ps -aux and could
> see a process as root running a something like ls | awk ... looking for
> different things. I didnt take time to write it down, I just shut the
> machine down.
> 

For the answer to your question, look at /etc/cron.*.

At various times of the wee hours, certain internal databases
are updated, in particular the locate db and the man db.

There are other cleanup tasks that occur as well.

I don't think you were hacked.

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