Newbie: pstree, slocate, mingetty, makewhatis and gawk

From: ck26 (@)
Date: 03/31/02

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    From: ck26 <ck26 but not this @ ukc.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 02:50:53 +0100

    Is the following from pstree a bad sign? slocate when this happens takes up
    around 50% of the processessing power of my CPU:

    init-+-anacron---run-parts---slocate.cron---slocate

    Also why does mingetty tty1-6 show up in ps -ef along with obscure commands
    like:

    /bin/bash /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis.cron
    /bin/sh /usr/sbin/makewhatis -w
    find . -name * -size +0 -print
    /bin/gawk

    Are these all system (scheduled) activities or is something weird going on?