On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Bryan P wrote:

> > 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.

Move it out of the way, and then replace it with a shell script that
possibly can log some of the details (before init becomes the parent).

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