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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 16:28:12 +1000 (EST)
From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: nobody <nonxstnt@darkening.com>
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Subject: Re: ee taking up weird cpu amount. 
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On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, nobody wrote:

> USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED       TIME COMMAND
> root     18863 99.1  1.2   388  732  p3- R     6:59PM  673:39.41 ee 
> /etc/pw.018862
> 
> I've had this happen several times now, where I would login to my system
> and see ee taking up 99% CPU (on a P2/266). As you can see, this is some
> guy doing chfn I guess. This process has been on for 12 hours now though. 

Kill the process. The vty has been disconnected without logging out, so 
ee goes into a loop.  vi and pico do the same thing.

Danny