On 7 Nov 2009, at 10:01, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Samstag 07 November 2009, Stroller wrote:
Hi there,
I have just found a process called "pegasus" running on my machine.
Does anyone know what it is, please?
# ps -e | grep peg
816 ? 00:00:00 pegasus
#
A Google suggested I might be able to find it's path thusly:
# ps -e -o pid,args | grep peg
816 [pegasus]
13927 grep --colour=auto peg
#
But as you can see, no joy. What do the [square brackets] mean,
please?
afaik it is a kernel process.
Yes, on a second look I find other processes bracketed similarly -
e.g. rt2500pci and reiserfs.
I'd love to know what the name of the kernel module is so I can unload
it:
$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i pegasus
CONFIG_USB_PEGASUS=y
$
Stroller.
