At 12:05 PM -0400 6/19/07, Eric wrote: >At 10:59 AM 6/19/2007, Tony Nelson wrote: > ><TN>>>>>The output from lsof includes the command. Some RPM-using thing is >running.<<<<< > >Oh, yeah, so it is... an instance of rpmq is running. > >Killed that, and the __db* files went away. > >Ran rpm --rebuilddb, which promptly went to sleep, and it's still running >(sleeping) after about 5 minutes... will let it run for a while longer >before taking the when-all-else-fails step (rebooting). ... `top` will tell you if it is sleeping or thinking, though it can't tell productive work from spinning wheels. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>