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Anyway, I’d like to figure out what this is and turn it off but I have no idea where to look, so any help would be welcome. Running crontab as either my user or root returns nothing. I’m on Mint 19 Cinnamon.
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cat /etc/cron.d/*
systemctl list-timers
systemctl --user list-timers
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I personally find locate a very useful tool when you need it, just shift it to a time when you're less active, or maybe weekly or even monthly instead of daily...
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/etc/cron.d/* looks innocent:
30 7 * * * root [ -x /etc/init.d/anacron ] && if [ ! -d /run/systemd/system ]; then /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d anacron start >/dev/null; fi
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=""
0 * * * * root timeshift --check --scripted
systemctl list-timers:
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED
Fri 2020-02-21 18:03:54 EST 8min left Fri 2020-02-21 17:00:11 EST 55min ago
Fri 2020-02-21 18:34:22 EST 38min left Fri 2020-02-21 09:53:17 EST 8h ago
Sat 2020-02-22 03:33:17 EST 9h left Fri 2020-02-21 14:43:13 EST 3h 12min a
Sat 2020-02-22 06:53:35 EST 12h left Fri 2020-02-21 09:53:17 EST 8h ago
Sat 2020-02-22 13:22:29 EST 19h left Fri 2020-02-21 13:22:29 EST 4h 33min a
Mon 2020-02-24 00:00:00 EST 2 days left Mon 2020-02-17 00:00:11 EST 4 days ago
n/a n/a Thu 2020-02-20 00:18:53 EST 1 day 17h
The last one might correspond to the approximate time it finished two days ago, but the rest don’t seem related.
systemctl --user list-timers shows 0 timer.
I also tried grep run-parts /etc/crontab to check mlocate and other dailies but the timing doesn’t correspond either.
17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
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Can't help you with systemd specifics though.
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I ran locate / as suggested on Launchpad to see where it was spending so much time, and as it happens Timeshift’s snapshots are occupying an incredible proportion of the output. I’ve added its directory to PRUNEPATHS in /etc/updatedb.conf as suggested, we’ll see how it goes the next time.
Last edited by Salvatos on 22 February 2020 at 5:25 am UTC
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