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How to trace why a process is running?



Scenario: my machine is on but hasn't been used for several hours when
I notice the hard drive taking lots of hits.  I log on and run 'top'
which tells me a 'find', owned by root, is using 25% of the CPU.  'ps -ef',
even as root, doesn't show the 'find'.

Question: how do I figure out who started that 'find' and why?

Thanks,

--Eric House


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