I got pretty many answers for my question.
The original question was:
> Hello,
> in my crontab file which is :/usr/spool/cron/crontab/root
> there is no enrty for any uucp daemon, but there is a uucp
> activity in the machine , from ps -ef for example :
>
> uucp 5909 5905 1 23:45:00 ? 0:00 /usr/bin/sh
> /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.cleanup
> uucp 5905 23321 0 23:45:00 ? 0:00 sh -c
> /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.cleanup
> uucp 6009 5909 0 23:45:06 ? 0:00 /usr/bin/sh
> /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.cleanup
> uucp 22359 1 0 00:11:00 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/uucp/uusched
> uucp 11335 23321 0 00:41:00 ? 0:00 sh -c
> /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.hour
> uucp 11338 1 0 00:41:00 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/uucp/uusched
> uucp 19119 1 0 01:41:00 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/uucp/uusched
> uucp 26891 26888 0 02:41:00 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/uucp/uusched
> uucp 26887 23321 0 02:41:00 ? 0:00 sh -c
> /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.hour
> uucp 26888 26887 0 02:41:00 ? 0:00 /usr/bin/sh
> /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.hour
>
> any ideas who is responsible for this ?
> the ppid for some of this is .... cron. ?!?!?!
>
> Stots
>
The Solution:
1. To remark all the entries in /usr/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp
which was a copy of /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.crontab.
2. To restart the cron.
Thanks to ALL who replied.
apaton@wtl1.demon.co.uk
hwe@uebemc.siemens.de
charliem@mwh.com
sweh@mpn.com
maral@phase-one.com.au
yuvalb@widecom.sys.co.il
tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com
raju@hoho.ecologic.net
raju@ecologic.net
rloftin@engsys.mc.xerox.com
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