Re: dynupdater not seeming to do anything
Hi.
On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 06:50:27AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 02:16:30PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sun 31 Jul 2022 at 06:28:18 (-0700), Paul Scott wrote:
> > > On 7/31/22 04:50, Curt wrote:
> > > > On 2022-07-31, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> > > > > > Doesn't it seem from the OP that the daemon doesn't
> > > > > > start?
> > > > > I interpret the process list in the original post as showing a
> > > > > running dyn_updater:
> > > > >
> > > > > > ps ax |grep dyn
> > > > > > 5237 ? Sl 170:43 dyn_updater
> > > > > > 5269 ? Sl 5:38 /usr/bin/dyn_updater --daemon start
> > > > > > 719685 pts/2 R+ 0:00 grep dyn
> >
> > > > You're right. I misread all that somehow. Documentation is
> > > > infuriatingly sparse, but mentions that the app's ( a *GUI* app) actvity
> > > > is logged to a file. Maybe the OP (who's disappeared anyway, as they
> > > > often do) should look there.
> > >
> > > I haven't disappeared. We're probably in different time zones and
> > > have different sleep schedules.
> > >
> > > I don't know about the GUI part of dyn_updater. It just site in my
> > > task bar and doesn't do anything when I click it.
> >
> > I'm just intrigued by how expensive dyn_updater is to run. Admittedly,
> > the machine has been up long enough to churn through 719685 processes,
> > but almost three hours CPU time to tell a daemon to spend five seconds
> > doing something; is everything OK?
>
> It seems to be from Oracle [1]. Possibly a Java abomination.
Nope. It's CPython + QT. But then again, it's totally possible to write
in Python in such way that users will think it's written in Java :)
The package they provide embeds its own copy of libssl (version 1.0 with
multiple known vulnerabilities), QT 4 (ditto), and libpython3 (version
3.3, ditto) so I would advise against using this particular utility for
any reason.
Reco
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