Wierd process running

[Madison Kelly]

Hi,

  lately I have been seeing this when I enter 'ps -ax' on my Fedora Core 
1 machine:

14173 ?        SN     0:00 sh -c ( tail -f??      ???? 
/var/log/messages ) 2>&1
14174 ?        SN     0:00 tail -f /var/log/messages

It often shows up multiple time and always 1 PID off of each other 
(though the pair may be many PIDs off). I can 'kill -9' it but what the 
heck is doing this? Any ideas? Thanks!

Madison

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