how to tell what ran what

[Glenn McCalley]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Björn König" <bkoenig at cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: "Glenn McCalley" <techlist at bnetmd.net>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: how to tell what ran what


> Glenn McCalley schrieb:
>
> > Is there a way to find out -which- -process- calls another process?
>
> Each process is associated with a parent; look at the ppid column:
>
>    ps axo user,pid,ppid,command
>
> Björn
>
>
Thanks, I stated the question poorly.  My fault.
Is historical info available and is it available by file name?

I trying to find out (for example) what (unknown) program ran another
(known) program between 0900 and 1000 yesterday - something like that.

I've got a customer sending our emails that he shouldn't - I don't know
which customer it is.  The program that sends the mail is running as a cgi
so it all shows up as user "nobody".

If I can get a list of what programs, path and file name, called sendmail
over (say) the last 24 hours, one of them should jump off the page with an
unreasonable level of activitiy.

Thanks!
Glenn.