On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 10:14, Alan wrote: > > When I ran TOP, I found a root session was running nano - at 50% CPU - > > continuously. This session would have survived at least 3 reboots. > > > > This system is behind my firewall and I have no reason to think it has > > been hacked.....and why would nano be using 50% of the CPU anyway? > Seems to be no Setiathome problem. I've see the vim too. Have you try too kill nano. What uid is running nano?
Look for your EDITOR export at rc.conf. Is there something wrong? stefan > I've seen vim do this as well occassionaly. Every once and a while an > app will just start spinning and kill off your CPU with it. However, > I highly doubt that it survived 3 reboots without being restarted > somehow. After a reboot, running apps die, so if it was running again > it was started somehow I'd think. > Do I have a clue how? Nope, not one. Does it show up in a ps after a > reboot? Or if you check periodically? > > alan
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