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So, my hard drive light was going mad, so I looked at the running processes and saw that the user "nobody" was running find. WTF? Was that somebody searching for ...
  1. 07-08-2007 #1
    rocketman768
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    "nobody" user running find?

    So, my hard drive light was going mad, so I looked at the running processes and saw that the user "nobody" was running find. WTF? Was that somebody searching for files on my computer? This is a single-user laptop under a wireless router with WPA encryption.
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  2. 07-09-2007 #2
    iwanabeguru
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    hi

    don't worry about it, it's normal.
    the processes which started by cron use the nobody user
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