On the distinguished day of Apr 22, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> 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.
...
> (Hopefully, the parent isn't init.)

init is the parent.

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

That was my initial guess, though I run a fairly spartan fvwm2 setup and
don't use sounds for anything except my mp3 player, which I had not used on
that bootup.  I restarted to see if it was coming up automatically somehow
(even though I searched everywhere with grep and couldn't find it), and it
is not.  After about an hour, it is again mysteriously showing up in my
process table.  Those two processes are the only ones in the session group.
The only processes I have been running are:

mozilla
xterm
xdm
fvwm2
xclock
xload
xv

Plus a handful of shell scripts and a NetBSD build.  I'm totally stumped.

-bp
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