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Re: cron: updatedb (fwd)



On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Oori Hasson wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, root wrote:
> > Could anyone please explain why I get the following message from cron 
> > 4once a day ?
> > find: /proc/self/fd/4: No such file or directory
> > find: /proc/self/fd/4: No such file or directory
> It's probably an error of a cron job running every day.
> Look in the 
> /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
> file to see what exactly causes it.
There is a program called locate that making a database file once a day at
4 am (something like that) and it has all the files in it in the format 
of du -a command.
you can run locate {filename} to search for a filename/directory !

the error message is becouse the program itself has ocupide some 
resources that made some directory/files in the proc directory (memory) 
and then the program delete them.

- it's the same question like: can i delete the huge file on the /proc 
director !!! 

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