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Re: [SLE] user nobody running find
- From: Fergus Wilde <fwilde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:25:11 +0000
- Message-id: <200411231225.12025.fwilde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 12:15, John Ryan wrote:
> Hello,
> I recently installed Suse Pro 9.1 onto my laptop.
> I have run yast online_update every second day.
> Today, after booting up, I noticed that performance was slow,
> so I ran "top" and saw that user "nobody" was running a "find".
> I killed it immediately.
>
> Who is this user?
>
> Is this normal, or do I have an intruder?
> If so, how should I proceed?
No, this is perfectly normal, nobody is a low-privilege system user doing
useful things like building locate databases, etc. Leave him alone to get on
with his job ...
HTH
Fergus
>
> John
> Hello,
> I recently installed Suse Pro 9.1 onto my laptop.
> I have run yast online_update every second day.
> Today, after booting up, I noticed that performance was slow,
> so I ran "top" and saw that user "nobody" was running a "find".
> I killed it immediately.
>
> Who is this user?
>
> Is this normal, or do I have an intruder?
> If so, how should I proceed?
No, this is perfectly normal, nobody is a low-privilege system user doing
useful things like building locate databases, etc. Leave him alone to get on
with his job ...
HTH
Fergus
>
> John
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