[Cialug] How do you find when a program is used during init?

[Jeff Chapin]

Because that steals my opportunity to compare the -exec example with 
xargs, mostly.

Jeff

On 02/01/2012 01:43 PM, kristau wrote:
> Um, why not just:
>
> grep -ri ntpdate /etc/*
> On Feb 1, 2012 1:20 PM, "Jeff Chapin"<chapinjeff at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> I believe xargs would be mildly more efficient in this case ;-)
>>
>> $ find /etc -type f | xargs grep -Hi ntpdate
>>
>> I believe this is because xargs will execute grep once for a large number
>> of files, while -exec executes once per file, spawning a new process.
>>
>> It's a minor point, but I so rarely get to share it....
>>
>> Yes, I am a huge nerd. Why do you ask?
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> On 02/01/2012 01:13 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
>>
>>> It might be faster to go with the other suggestion of renaming ntpdate,
>>> but if you'd like to learn more about how the system works you can find
>>> all occurrences of ntpdate with something like this:
>>>
>>>      $ find /etc -type f -exec grep -Hi ntpdate {} \; 2>   /dev/null
>>>
>>> I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to find a more efficient way
>>> to do that; the "find ... -exec grep ..." is just the idiom i find most
>>> intuitive.
>>>
>>> On 2012-02-01 at 12:18:27, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> On a custom Debian-based distribution, ntpdate is being used in the
>>>> startup, but I don't know where.  I'd like to find it and comment it
>>>> out to test something.  What is the best way to track down a program
>>>> that is running during init?  Is there a way to know at what runlevel
>>>> it is running?
>>>>
>>>> I've looked in /etc/init.d and in rc0.d and others but nothing is
>>>> jumping out.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any tips or pointers.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Nate
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