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wo3:~ admin$ cd /etc/emond.d/rules/
wo3:rules admin$ sudo su
Password:
sh-3.2# ls -l
total 40
-rw-r–r–  1 root  wheel  5252 Mar 16  2008 AdaptiveFirewall.plist
-rw-r–r–  1 root  wheel   366 Dec 31  2008 DiskStatus.plist.previous
-rw-r–r–  1 root  wheel  5042 Aug 30  2008 SWUpdate.plist
sh-3.2# rm -Rf *.*
i delted all the emond daemon files… now i’m going to kill the process.
killing the process doesn’t work? now what?
couldn’t kill it in terminal so i switched to activity monitor and it’s gone.. CPU from 99% to around 10%