Re: Slow Response

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 08:33:43 -0600
"Mugleston, Brad" <brad mugleston gwl com> wrote:

> Last night I started up my computer and noticed things were running
> really slow.  I checked TOP and saw three programs taking up almost
> 80% of the system resources.  These programs are removeservice,
> expandreports and applystddate.  I did a quick check on my system and
> found no man pages for them.  They are all located under
> /etc/logid/scripts/shared/
> 
> What are these and what are they doing?  Do they not run on each boot
> up as I don't remember having this problem before.
> 
> Brad

Those are logwatch scripts doing their thing, making a report to send to
root (you) when finished. They get run (on my machine) at 4:02 via the
00-logwatch script in /etc/cron.daily or maybe they'll get caught up
later if running anacron, which I don't-my machine's always on.

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