[Xymon] Rpm process?

[Japheth Cleaver]

On Wed, August 7, 2013 2:41 pm, Mike Burger wrote:
>> Has anyone else had the problem of getting a red cpu status of "Load is
>> CRITICAL!" with the process list showing a Xymon process of rpm being
>> the
>> top user of CPU resources?
>> I looked all over the source code and don't see anywhere that Xymon is
>> using the rpm command to do anything.  Since this is a "canned" status
>> on
>> a
>> running system, not on a system where Xymon is being built, for example,
>> this is obviously a default process, but where is it coming from?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David
>
>
> Xymon isn't running the rpm process...xymon is alerting you to the fact
> that your CPU is pegged, and that the rpm process appears to be at the top
> of the CPU hogging process list.
>
> You'll want to look in your crontabs, your cron.d and cron.daily jobs,
> etc, to determine just what is calling rpm and why.
>


There's nothing in either the Terabithia RPM or the default RPM (that I
know of) that would call the 'rpm' command itself. And an install that
went awry would be running as the root user, not the xymon user.

Can you post the specific command (or ps line) in question?


Regards,

-jc