On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 06:23:46PM -0800, Eric House wrote: > 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?
I guess /etc/cron.daily/find was running, it is started by cron to update the database used by 'locate'. You should use 'ps fax', ax to see all processes and f to see the relationship between them. Regards, Lipo -- Roland E. Lipovits Vienna, Austria