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I have identified the process as being something run by sh under the root account. It comes up again as soon as the server is rebooted. I haven't yet found out what or where it is writing to on the disk. I'll try FSLogger tomorrow.
There have been no configuration changes, but this coincides with other issues that have cropped up in the past few days. Can anyone help in identifying what is running (besides just sh) and how to stop it, other than Force Quitting/killing it manually.
Thank you,
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