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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>prowler</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="provocative-maintenance.html" title="provocative maintenance"/><link rel="next" href="pseudo.html" title="pseudo"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">prowler</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="provocative-maintenance.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="pseudo.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="prowler"/><dt xmlns="" id="prowler"><b>prowler</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Unix] A <a href="../D/daemon.html"><i class="glossterm">daemon</i></a> that is run periodically
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(typically once a week) to seek out and erase <a href="../C/core.html"><i class="glossterm">core</i></a>
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files, truncate administrative logfiles, nuke <b class="command">lost+found</b> directories, and otherwise clean up the
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<a href="../C/cruft.html"><i class="glossterm">cruft</i></a> that tends to pile up in the corners of a file
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system. See also <a href="../R/reaper.html"><i class="glossterm">reaper</i></a>,
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