Weird cron jobs in FC3

[Ken Keefe <kaje@digitalfamily.org>]

I am relatively new to using FC3 and I noticed that my cpu usage on gkrellm was really high all of a sudden even though I had no applications running. After a little exploring, I found that a program called "makewhatis" was taking up a majority of my cpu and there were several root processes that seem to be cron jobs... So, I thought I would post here and make sure that this is ok and not some sort of break in or security breach... Here is the ps -Af output of the ones that seem to be of importance. Some of them were cut off because I did it in a terminal and didn't think to redirect it to a file until after they were already gone.

root      6949     1  0 12:41 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/acpid
root      7093  4436  0 12:46 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
root      7094  7093  0 12:46 ?        00:00:00 /bin/bash /etc/cron.weekly/00-makewhatis.cron
root      7095  7093  0 12:46 ?        00:00:00 awk -v progname=/etc/cron.weekly/00-makewhatis.cron progname {?????   print progname ":\n"?????   progname="";????
root      7101  7094  5 12:46 ?        00:00:14 /bin/bash /usr/bin/makewhatis -w
root     23761  7101  0 12:51 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/gawk ??    function readline() {?      if (use_zcat || use_bzcat) {??result = (pipe_cmd | getline);??if (resul
root     23762 23761  0 12:51 ?        00:00:00 [zcat] <defunct>

What is all this about? I have been having some strange lock up issues that I can't seem to tie down the cause to, so I am mildly paranoid about things that suddenly "happen" on my system that I don't understand...

Thanks,
Ken