Mysterious execution of "find" command

ikevinjp · Jul 3, 2012

Why does FreeBSD execute this find command:

Code:

24795 root        1  24    0 10052K  2632K zio->i  3   0:02  5.86% find

I've about five of them running on an idle machine. What does this do?

idownes · Jul 3, 2012

Is this around 3 am? If so, it's probably from the periodic(8) scripts.

fluca1978 · Jul 4, 2012

Yes, it surely a periodic script running.
To check which finds are executed by periodic you can do the following:

Code:

grep find /etc/periodic/*/*