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Wagner_17
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Process named "mad"

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
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Marcel Boogert_1
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Re: Process named "mad"

Patrick Wallek
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Re: Process named "mad"

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
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Re: Process named "mad"

It's an hpservice:

/opt/hpservices/bin/mad

called from:

/sbin/init.d/hpservices

Rgds...Geoff
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Wagner_17
Advisor

Re: Process named "mad"

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
Advisor

Re: Process named "mad"

Thanks to all.