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Hi there, |
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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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# ps -e | grep peg |
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816 ? 00:00:00 pegasus |
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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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But as you can see, no joy. What do the [square brackets] mean, please? |
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`locate pegasus` only finds source files to a kernel driver - they |
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appear to relate to a USB network adaptor, as they're in /usr/ |
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src/...drivers/net/usb/ however I can't say I've used one of those on |
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this system since it was last rebooted 2 weeks ago. I don't believe |
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this driver is loaded: |
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# lsmod | wc -l |
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49 |
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# lsmod | grep peg |
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# |
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Obviously one is slightly paranoid when one encounters an unknown |
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process running on one's system, with the thought that one has been |
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hacked. I'm sure this isn't the case, but if someone could tell me |
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what this is it would reassure me and I would be grateful. |
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TIA, |
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Stroller. |
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