Locate code? Find? What do they do?

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RoboCop001

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Oct 4, 2005

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Toronto, Canada

• Apr 12, 2008

• #1

Is that part of the maintenance thing?

I see it every now and then at night, and it makes the fans go up.

lol

 

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AntonicKnight

macrumors newbie

Apr 24, 2006

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• May 17, 2008

• #2

I've encountered this behaviour too, usually just after waking my computer from sleep. Running Leopard 10.5.2 on a Mac Pro.

 

ElectricSheep

macrumors 6502

Feb 18, 2004

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Wilmington, DE

• May 17, 2008

• #3

AntonicKnight said:

I've encountered this behaviour too, usually just after waking my computer from sleep. Running Leopard 10.5.2 on a Mac Pro.

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The Daily, Weekly, and Monthly maintenance tasks that Mac OS X runs in the background periodically (or on next wake if your machine has been sleeping) use these shell programs to accomplish their goals. This is pretty normal.

 

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AntonicKnight

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Apr 24, 2006

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• Feb 7, 2009

• #4

This is some additional info I managed to collect today. The process seems to be part of a weekly task to update the "locate database".

 

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ppc750fx

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Aug 20, 2008

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• Feb 7, 2009

• #5

Yeah, it's part of the weekly script. Nothing to be concerned about.