Re: pccardd: what is this ?!
On 11:04 Sat 12 Nov , Paulo M C Aragão wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed today the following daemons running:
>
> UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
> root 1121 1 0 Nov11 ? 00:00:00 [pccardd]
> root 1123 1 0 Nov11 ? 00:00:00 [pccardd]
>
> but can't establish what they are.
>
> I'm running:
>
> updated Debian sid
> kernel 2.6.14-1-686
> pcmcia-cs 3.2.8-5.2
>
> I've tried:
>
> dpkg -S pccardd
> grep pccardd /etc/init.d/*
> find /bin /usr/bin /sbin /usr/sbin -name pccardd
>
> but it's nowhere.
>
> I also noticed that the link /proc/1123/exe is broken.
>
> I googled for 'pccardd' and all hits referred to FreeBSD. It looks like it's
> functionally equivalent to cardmgr(8). But no hits referred to Debian.
>
> I started to worry that my laptop might have been attacked.
>
> Does anybody know what are these 'pccardd' daemons ?
See CONFIG_PCCARD=m in your kernel config. This is the pcmcia_core
module.
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