What's This?

[Kevin Darcy]

The rcp processes are unrelated to the named process. Why don't you use
"ptree" to trace their ancestry (e.g. what process has PID 4337 in the example
you showed)? My guess is that you have some automated script in place to copy
named.conf files between machines.


- Kevin

Joe Blow wrote:

> I'm running BIND 8.2.3, and just today, I started seeing these extra
> processes for named:
>
>      dns 28259     1  0 16:15:29 ?        0:01 /usr/local/sbin/named -u
> dns -g dns
>     root 28280 28279  0 16:22:22 ?        0:00 /usr/lib/sunw,rcp -p -t
> /dns/named.conf
>     root 28279  4337  0 16:22:22 ?        0:00 sh -c /usr/lib/sunw,rcp -p -t
> /dns/named.conf
>
> The top one by user dns is normal, but I've never seen these other before.
> Can anyone shed some light on what's happening? And how to prevent it if
> it's bad! ;)
>
> I'm running Solaris 8. Let me know if you need any other info.