Wierd process running

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Madison Kelly wrote:

> 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!

    Probably sending messages to a console.

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