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Re: How to trace why a process is running?



Eric House <ehouse@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:

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

Check out pstree.  It can show you what process spawned it, and you can get 
its pid.  Then you can do something like "ps auxwwww | grep <pid>" and get
all of the details on that process.

Later,
	Dale
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