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Re: hard to find out what those daemons are about



begin  Dan Jacobson quote on Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:08:30AM +0800:
> I do pstree and I see "khubd".  "What could that be about?," I say.  I
> try locate, man, apt-cache search, looking in /proc/{it's pid},
> everything I can think of.  After removing the "k", 
> find /var/tmp/kernel-source-2.4.18/|grep hubd
> finds some uncommented files that may have something to do with it...
> 
> Anyway, is it really sometimes that hard to track down things one sees
> in ps(1) output?

Yep.  Not everything is documented as well as it should be.

Even FreeBSD doesn't have man pages for all of its kernel threads, and
they have extremely thorough and polished documentation available via
man pages.

M

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