Gosh I love this list - the correct answer got to me as fast as the
turnaround on my posting :-)
The answer was line noise on ttya from a cable that had been left in
the port from when I was using a vt52 terminal as a console. I had
switched back to Sun's keyboard/monitor because of reliability
problems with the terminal and forgot to unplug the old RS232 line. I
unplugged the line and the process(es) went away immediately.
Many thanks to roy@wombat.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) - I will now sleep
a little better.
Al Lichty
Department of Anthropology
University of Utah
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