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Re: [cobalt-security] pidof proc/16029/stat <Revisited



>*	From: shimi 
>*	Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] pidof proc/16029/stat 
>*	Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 01:53:48 -0700 

>On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Carrie Bartkowiak wrote:

> Here's another one that has me looking at my screen like the RCA
> puppy... help?
> 
> Apr 21 15:35:33 www pidof[16031]: can't get program name from
> /proc/16029/stat

>pidof - Finds proccess id of running programs, similar to pgrep found
in
>some other Unices.

>homepage of program:
><http://psmisc.sourceforge.net/>

>a guess? pidof was called to give a result, but the process it was
called
>to run after died before it could get it's info from the procfs.

> 
> I swear one day I'll know all of this stuff. Really.
> 
> CarrieB

So is this program native to the O/S 'out of the box' or is it loaded
after. What calls it? Cron?

Thanks, Curtis