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An instance of a running computer program.

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How can I find the location of the source code for an app running on an Ubuntu image?

Let's say I've logged into an image that was spun up by an automated process and it's serving up a website (in my case it's a Rails site). I'm rooted, but don't know where to find the source code. Given that there are processes running that are…
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Is it possible to umount a drive from where a program is running?

I want to run some confidential program on a cloud server. In order to protect it from being copied, I can encrypt it into a drive and mount the decrypted drive to run it. However I want to umount the decrypted drive once it sets up running in…
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Structure to track running/completed scripts in proc/

I have a script that runs every hour, and without using a database, I would like to check if that file is either: (1) currently running; (2) already completed; or (3) not yet run. If it's #3, then I run it, otherwise I skip it. What would be a good…
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Force Nginx to create a new process for each request

Nginx reverse proxy send and receives requests from client to a defined port, that usually is a process that responds to requests the thing is if for one of requests the process crashes the whole parallel threads also crash, I know it should be…
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Suspicious process 'find' running under user nobody

At startup I noticed my machine was under heavy load. Opened up a terminal and top to find a process running the command find under user nobody that was using 90%+ of my memory. I killed it immediately. Has my machine been compromised? How can I…
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Get the age of a process?

How can I see the age (in seconds) of a process in Linux? I want to do it in a script. ps has various start/lstart/start_time options, which show a textual format for the date & time the process started. How can I get an integer representing the…
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What determines the user a services started

I thought, that the service files under /lib/systemd/system/ determine as what user a service is started. But apparently that's not (always) the case. Here's an example: ~# ps faux ... whoopsie 1445 0.0 0.1 388420 12604 ? Ssl 08:22 0:00…
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Easily monitor the CPU % use of a process

I'm have a small ISP and currently we are running an application of a customer that it's creating high CPU pikes. Basically we have chrome tab running and automate a process to stresstest a web application, so chrome processes are created basically…
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Resource consuming process

I have a Debian server hosting an AngularJS - Java application. When I run the htop command I have the following process which consumes the resource and I wanted to know what this process is for? https://i.stack.imgur.com/enFfR.png
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How to block Windows Service from spawning new process

In continue to my SO question, I would like to know how it is possible, by GPO, or a security setting, to prevent from a Windows Service to spawn new process. I have a machine with Windows Service (logon as SYSTEM) and it attempt to create new…
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What are the common ports/ranges that standard Windows processes will listen on?

Is there any documentation that I can reference that outlines what ports or port ranges that most standard Windows processes will listen on? For example, if I saw wininit.exe listening on TCP 16000, would that be unusual? Or if csrss.exe was…
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How can I adjust the name of a process I run?

I have a rack/ruby application on a server. I run it as follows: nohup rackup -o 0.0.0.0 -p 1234 & In the output of "top" command it appears as simply "ruby" PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND 98421 …
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Killing a Perl process in Linux

I started a perl process that runs a script and I want to end it, but not the rest of perl scripts. How do I target it and not the rest?
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Why wordpress sites top -c showing that only index file is used

I am want to that Why wordpress sites top -c showing that only index file is used. What all request are handle by index.php? when every time i check top -c it's show as below: 743204 (Trace) (Kill) affinity 0 4.34 0.14 /usr/bin/php…
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CentOS suspicious process

One of my web server is running on CentOS and I have been spotted that one of the processes is taking almost all swap memory. Mention process is: /opt/opsware/agent/bin/pyton /opt/opsware/agent/pylibs/shadowbot/deamonbot.pyc --conf …
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