On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:46:37PM +0000, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Can anyone help me work out what this entry in the > process list is: > > > PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND > [snip] > 186 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron > [snip] > 16891 ? S 0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON > 16892 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh -c if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi > 16893 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -q > 18318 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -q > 18319 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -q > 18320 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/procmail > 18321 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/exim -q > > I'm fine with #186, but why have I got #16891 there? > According to pstree, it's the parent of the subsequent exim and > procmail processes, but there's nothing in my /etc/crontab to > suggest that anything should be going on around now. > > Does this smell fishy to anyone, or am I getting needlessly > worried? Needlessly worried. 16891 is a child of 186; you can tell because the process name is in all caps (you could also tell if you did "ps fax"). 16892 is the child of 16891; it's the script listed in /etc/cron.d/exim, which runs every 15 minutes. Cheers, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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