23 Nov
2004
23 Nov
'04
12:25
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