On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 14:00 +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: [snip] > Now I have to figure out what CROND was doing... > > Does ps always show processes in D state in CAPITAL letters? > > After cron restart it is "crond", as usual. crond is the regular cron daemon. CROND is what cron names its child processes as they run scheduled commands. I've seen cron stuck in D from running user crontabs on unavailable NFS mounts. -- Zan Lynx