Re: runaway man processes and cron emails
>
> Dear all,
>
> when I leave pick for a while (which is often necessary, given
> it's still in cambridge), the load gradually increases, due to processes
> like:
>
> 24227 man 17 10 624 624 484 R N 0 93.3 4.4 2975m sh
>
> They only start after I've read a man page (I think), and I also start
> getting email like:
>
> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:23:00 +0100 (BST)
> From: Cron Daemon <root@cam.ac.uk>
> To: mail@cam.ac.uk
> Subject: Cron <mail@pick> runq
>
> shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent
> directories
>
I don't know about the man problem, but this error message is what you
get if you su <some user> in a directory where <some user> has no access
permissions.
HTH,
Eric
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