The manpath utility is run from cron... if you do an "strace -p <pid of manpath>", you'll likely see that it gets stuck in a loop for directories that don't exist, yet it expects to find. - Herman On Fri, 5 May 2000, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: ->>> >Has anyone else encountered this problem? ->>> ->>> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND ->>> 18307 root 10 0 704 704 384 R 0 33.1 1.1 2003m manpath ->>> 24773 root 10 0 704 704 384 R 0 32.7 1.1 688:48 manpath ->>> 29999 root 12 0 704 704 384 R 0 29.7 1.1 1:51 manpath ->>> <snip> ->>> ->>> 12:07am up 5 days, 11:46, 1 user, load average: 4.41, 4.32, 3.84 ->>> ->>> ->>> ... and this machine does nothing. The manpath commands hang until you ->>> manually kill them. ->> ->>Yes, various times, SuSE 6.2 and 6.3 (don't have 6.4 yet). ->>It obviously doesn't always happen, but I could not track down when and ->>how. If I run the same command on the command lne (as is run by cron), ->>it always ran fine. ->> ->>Volker ->> ->>--------------------------------------------------------------------- ->>To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-security-unsubscribe@suse.com ->>For additional commands, e-mail: suse-security-help@suse.com ->>