On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:03:40PM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> I don't know what I could have done, but strangely one of my servers
> doesn't end the processes that seem to be involved in those daily|weekly
> security checks.  If nothing else, at least I know why this machine would
> suddenly and completely lock up. :)
> Two questions:
> 1) What might be causing processes to not end (see the attached output
> of `ps -aux`)?

ps axl would be more instructive. 
Maybe you have a NFS filesystem which is stuck ?

> 2) Actually, it would be nice to be able to turn off those automatically
> mailed security checks.  How can that be done?

'crontab -e' as root


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