confusion on creation of a file

[mace]

Well the title is sort of true. I am looking to free up spme space, so I've been hunting down file that are present and can be remove or parred down.
A few days ago I found a DB2 log ~1.3 mb. I then talked to the db2 guy about it, but my curiosity got the best of me and when I looked closer i found the file is being create daily. The owner is root, so I do a crontab -l to see the process creating it and there is not process that runs near the creation time of the file!
Here are the file attrs:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 138796484 2012-03-02 06:51 dklog.log

What am I missing? If it we a db2 process wouldnt it be owned by db2?
thanks
mace

[Lazydog]

No, there is a process that is running as root that is creating this file. It might not be a cron job that is starting it.

[mace]

Ok so a ps will show waht the current processes are , how or can i find what created it?
thx
mace

[Lazydog]

Try htop or

pgrep -u root

or

ps -faux | grep root

[Siddly]

Well the title is sort of true. I am looking to free up spme space, so I've been hunting down file that are present and can be remove or parred down.
A few days ago I found a DB2 log ~1.3 mb. I then talked to the db2 guy about it, but my curiosity got the best of me and when I looked closer i found the file is being create daily. The owner is root, so I do a crontab -l to see the process creating it and there is not process that runs near the creation time of the file!
Here are the file attrs:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 138796484 2012-03-02 06:51 dklog.log

What am I missing? If it we a db2 process wouldnt it be owned by db2?
thanks
mace

It seems to belong to db2.
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