Re: hard to find out what those daemons are about
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:08:30AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> 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...
Many, but not all, kernel processes have a "k" at the start. I seem to
remember that khubd is related to the USB hub driver. The kernel
processes often have very low PIDs because they are started at boot.
> Anyway, is it really sometimes that hard to track down things one sees
> in ps(1) output?
If they're kernel processes there won't be any file associated with
them, so it can be difficult. In the case of Linux most of them can
probably be identified with a web search, though.
--
Michael Heironimus
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