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On Samstag 07 November 2009, Stroller wrote: |
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> On 7 Nov 2009, at 10:01, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > On Samstag 07 November 2009, Stroller wrote: |
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> >> Hi there, |
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> >> |
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> >> I have just found a process called "pegasus" running on my machine. |
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> >> Does anyone know what it is, please? |
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> >> |
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> >> # ps -e | grep peg |
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> >> 816 ? 00:00:00 pegasus |
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> >> # |
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> >> |
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> >> A Google suggested I might be able to find it's path thusly: |
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> >> # ps -e -o pid,args | grep peg |
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> >> 816 [pegasus] |
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> >> 13927 grep --colour=auto peg |
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> >> # |
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> >> |
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> >> But as you can see, no joy. What do the [square brackets] mean, |
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> >> please? |
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> > |
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> > afaik it is a kernel process. |
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> Yes, on a second look I find other processes bracketed similarly - |
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> e.g. rt2500pci and reiserfs. |
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> I'd love to know what the name of the kernel module is so I can unload |
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> it: |
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> $ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i pegasus |
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> CONFIG_USB_PEGASUS=y |
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it is not a module, but compiled in. You have to rebuild your kernel. And |
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probably decrapify your config a lot. |