[Cialug] Linux Processes

[Todd Walton]

pstree is nice, yeah.

--
Todd


On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 10:35 AM David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> You can get some of that using pstree (I like "pstree -p" to show the pid).
> It breaks things out some, but not quite exactly what you're looking for.
>
> -dc
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 9:12 AM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I really wish Linux had a clear way of showing what processes start just
> > because they're standard stuff, and what processes are running because an
> > admin made them run.
> >
> > * The processes that are in square brackets are kernel threads. They
> > represent real work being done, but they're not *really* "processes".
> > * Then you always see background stuff like dbus and gpg-agent and cups.
> I
> > might want to know they're running, but not normally.
> > * The desktop environment always starts up a ton of stuff. I'd like all
> > those to be grouped together as part of one thing.
> > * If httpd is running then that's definitely a Thing Of Interest.
> postfix,
> > haproxy, php-fpm, etc. Those are things I want to be front and center by
> > default.
> >
> > I haven't figured out an easy and effective way of getting just what I
> > want. Of knowing what's running because it's supposed to be, and what's
> > running just because it supports something else. This usually is an issue
> > when I get into a server that I didn't set up, but now I'm doing
> forensics
> > trying to figure out what the heck is going on.
> >
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