> From: "Jeremy C. Reed"
> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 22:50:15 -0700 (PDT)
>
> daily.conf manual page. To turn off the security report, set run_security
> to "NO" in /etc/daily.conf. (I like receiving these daily reports; in

Setting run_security to "NO" solved the immediate problem.  Thanks, and I
really mean it!  Now to find out why.  NONE of my other NetBSD machines have
ever done this.  BTW, if it matters, this is on a sun4c NetBSD 1.4.2(sparc).

> From: Manuel Bouyer
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:08:14 +0200
> 
> ps axl would be more instructive. 

Thanks.  I'll turn run_security back on to try to debug this thing.  What
should I look for?  (But if it's too hard to explain, I'll just post the
"ps axl" output for the processes that accumulate.)

> Maybe you have a NFS filesystem which is stuck ?

Actually I didn't compile NFS support into the kernel:
#file-system    NFS
#options        NFSSERVER
nor have I touched anything with regard to NFS, unless inadvertently.

> 'crontab -e' as root

Again, thanks.  Good lesson.

henry nelson