Process named "mad"

[Wagner_17]

Hi people,

I found a process running on my machine named "mad". Anyone here knows what is this?

Thanx

Wagner

CPU TTY PID USERNAME PRI NI SIZE RES STATE TIME %WCPU %CPU COMMAND
4 ? 8664 root 241 20 5784K 1412K run 1689:02 98.82 98.65 mad

[Marcel Boogert_1]

Hi there,

Could be : http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/X11/Emulators/mad-0.13.0b/


Regards, MB.

[Patrick Wallek]

Never heard of it. It sounds like something custom. What is its PPID? Is it 1? If so, check your /sbin/init.d files and see if there is anything there that refers to "mad". You might also check /etc/inittab and see if there is a "mad" entry there.

[Geoff Wild · Accepted solution]

It's an hpservice:

/opt/hpservices/bin/mad

called from:

/sbin/init.d/hpservices

Rgds...Geoff

[Wagner_17]

Geoff,

Correct. Is a hpservices process.

Jacarta1-Ceee # pwd
/opt/hpservices/bin
Jacarta1-Ceee # ls -lt
total 9306
-rwxr-x--- 1 root sys 4359336 Dec 5 2002 mad
-rwxr-x--- 1 root sys 209666 Dec 5 2002 matcli
-rwxr-x--- 1 root sys 32891 Dec 5 2002 xgui
-rwxr-x--- 1 root sys 160379 Dec 5 2002 xmat

[Wagner_17]

Thanks to all.