I booted up my machine running SuSE 9.2 Pro, full install. New install as of two days ago, too.

I was AFK but heard the drive start grinding away. I used KDE system guard to look at processes and saw a few things I did not understand.

On the root level there was a FIND running on the drive. I noticed a few cron events going but I have not configured any myself.

Total newb here, and I am very perplexed.

I started a new session as root to kill the processes, but was not able to...I then yanked the ethernet cable and the find stopped.

I have a Linksys router I got from vonage as my firewall, and the firewall is not compiled into the kernal.

Any ideas? Clues? things to look for?

EDIT: I went in to check networking in yast and the NIS server was set up as a slave, which I dont recall turning on myself. I did set it up as primary once, but turned it off. Also, I did have samba server running, but i have now turned that off as well. thx

it would be great if you could paste the ps output here. We cant help if there isnt any enough information. Cheers!