Re: 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?
The find task that you are describing is normally run by 'cron'; as part of
the
locate database system. As for tracking down the process - you should run
'ps -xaf' to show tasks that have been detached from a terminal.
Jolyon
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