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I just noticed a process running the following command or something similar while configuring htop:
find /tmp /var/tmp -type f -exec head -n1 '{}' \+
I think this is triggered by /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf. Can anyone confirm this? Why does it need to run head on every single file in those directories?
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That is the only thing that I have found so far that references both /tmp and /var/tmp.
I installed systemd and cronie this week. The process was automatically started and used enough cpu cycles to increase the fan speed. I think I would have noticed that before. I tend to check conky or htop whenever the fan takes off.
I don't know exactly what it was doing, but it's probably some housekeeping service or cronjob. I wasn't logged in as root at the time, so it can't have been any application that I was running (the only thing I sudo'd was pacman).
Of course, maybe I'm just losing my mind.
Last edited by Xyne (2012-12-02 03:39:00)
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As falconindy says systemd-tmpfiles does not call find (or any other external binary). You could try systemd-cgls when the process to running to find its parent.
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