find the origin of a process

[Dave Mitchell]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:12:10AM +1100, L wrote:
> Hi
> Look at the below processes. DavMail started at boot up. This is not
> proper because User's desktop does not start. I want DavMail started
> after user login to the desktop.
> 
> I need to stop this process from auto starting. I need to find where
> this process was called.
> The process 1 is /sbin/init I can't find where it calls  ./davmail.sh

/sbin/init probably didn't call davmail.sh. Any process whose parent
process exits has its PPID set to 1.

> USER1   2072     1  0 08:51 ?        00:00:00 sh ./davmail.sh

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