Subject: Re: strange process filling root
To: Greg MATTHEWS <G.Matthews@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
From: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/06/2001 14:38:30 
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Greg MATTHEWS wrote:
> uid 32767 is the user 'nobody' so what process is filling up my root?

It's the weekly build of the locate database, which makes some temporary
files in /tmp that can get rather large. You can add/change the
"rebuild_locatedb" in /etc/weekly.conf if you don't want a locate
database.