pstree will show parent/child processes<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed May 19 2010, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> looks like a standard "look for dead stuff" cron that has gone bad. This<br>
> may be feeding a locate db.<br>
><br>
> Kill it.<br>
<br>
</div>yeah, but what cron job kicked it off.. I looked in /etc/cron.daily, saw a few<br>
entries that looked like it might be them. SOme packages that had files<br>
there, the packages had long ago been removed.. then I went back & purged<br>
those packages, which got rid of those files.. I'll check again tomorrow.<br>
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