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An instance of a running computer program.

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Running intensive process on an operating LAMP server ; Risks on uptime?

Backstory: The server is running Ubuntu 14.04. We want to download and put on an external hard drive everything in Apache's document root as we are working on a complete redesign of the web site. (67 Gb of data). A first download was made with FTP…
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famd process - lsof -i

I'm running a postfix machine with courier on it. I did a lsof -i and I got the following famd 1437 root 3u IPv4 3916 TCP localhost.localdomain:webster (LISTEN) Does anybody know what's famd and webster? I dont recall seeing…
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How to find which group policy setting is preventing software from opening?

I have recently installed the Lumension Device Control Management Console on a computer on my Domain. There is a GPO on the domain which is enforcing security settings and audit settings. Now that I have the software installed when I go to Open the…
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Identify process that was running Exim from one email account

I have a server which is barely 4 months old and already a process is running to "spam" people. this is baffling as I have a secure password and have never given it to anyone. I am taking the following action: Changed root password When I search…
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Limits configured but not applied to a daemon

On my CentOS 7, I use cat /proc//limits to see the actuel limit set. I got confirmation that this method is totally accurate here because I'm using it on MySQL, which can't dump a specific database with >8000 tables in it. If, by using prlimit…
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Processes spawning randomly and sucking CPU

I am currently on Ubuntu 16.04, and I have noticed slowdowns across the server in general. Upon viewing htop, I noticed that processes with random commands are spawning, while taking the CPU usage with it; Here is the image that shows an offending…
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After using killall -u root, I am unable to access server and all websites are down

I am using CentOS server. I wanted to test how to kick users by kicking myself (root) user. I used killall -u root and it kicked me from the server which was as expected. However I am no longer able to access the server: root@kali:~# ssh…
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How to check if a process is still outputting or hung

I'm using some casperjs scripts (which I don't really understand) with a known issue that the process hangs after a specific warning message. Otherwise it's outputting a log message every few seconds. I need to restart the process when it hangs. So…
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Going back to a running instalation process after being disconnected

I was running an instillation through remote access using ssh shell. and didn't look at the screen for a while(my bad). when I go back to that console I find it was asking for a path like: Enter custom ***** directory path [/apps/****/****/**]? All…
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How to kill all processes with Sl stat in ubuntu?

I have some scripts which spawns multiple processess to tasks in background. Most of them terminates but few of them does not terminates on finishing the task. The number of these types of processes keeps on increasing and now they are consuming a…
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How do child apache processes listen if they are root?

I see here: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/invoking.html "If the Listen specified in the configuration file is default of 80 (or any other port below 1024), then it is necessary to have root privileges in order to start apache, so that it can…
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Does upstart have a built in way to respawn a process that is not stopped using initctl stop in specific intervals?

We thought the following directives would try to respawn the process 10 times in 60 seconds (i.e. once every 6 seconds): respawn respawn limit 10 60 However these directives restart the process as soon as it is crashed. So it might actually respawn…
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Real memory usage on Linux and Private_Dirty

On Linux, is using Private_Dirty value from smaps a good way to measure real process memory usage? Thanks
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printing a children's full tree recursively in bash script

sry for not being familiar with question conventions since im new here. i want to write a script that prints the full children's tree recursively of a given pid. i got so far as: ps h -ef | awk '$3='$input_pid' {print $2}' | sort -n but this is…
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Jira/Confluence hogging memory with lots of processes

We've been working with Jira and Confluence on a Debian 6 VPS for a while now. Everything is fine as far as their daily use is concerned. The issue we are encountering now is that occasionally, the VPS hosting both solutions will hang on CPU…
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