On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Bryan P wrote:

>  925 ?? S    0:00.01 /usr/pkg/bin/esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spawnfd 28
> 1021 ?? Ss   0:00.01 /bin/sh -c /usr/pkg/bin/esd -terminate -nobeeps -as 2 -spaw
>
> and I can't figure out where they are being started.  Any ideas?

Use ps(1) to tell you the parent process id; then see what it is.

  ps -o pid,ppid,command

(Hopefully, the parent isn't init.)

esd is the Enlightened Sound Daemon. Maybe your desktop environment
started it.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/