[ale] unknown programs [seemingly] auto running under RedHat6.1.......

[Jeff Hubbs]

Courtney -

Dunno about mdrecoveryd but slocate is what (IIRC) Red Hat and Mandrake 
fire off nightly via cron to index the filesystem contents to facilitate 
your subsequent use of locate.  Try a command like "locate crontab" and 
note that it doesn't whirl your drives finding it - it just looks it up 
in the database that slocate built.  

mdrecoveryd may be another housekeeping chore.  Look through 
/etc/crontab and the files it refers to and I think you'll find a 
"locate -u" in there somewhere.

- Jeff

Courtney Thomas wrote:

> Greetings !
>
> Last night I noticed "slocate" and "mdrecoveryd" running. I didn't run 
> them. What are they and how can I best determine who/what is causing 
> this ?
>
> Appreciatively,
> Courtney
>
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