[Q] Processes etc.....

[Michael Cohen]

Donovan,
	The below two processes are kernel userspace processes. That means they 
arent actually real processes but pseuo processes which are started from the 
kernel. The first, keventd is a process looking after events such as pcmcia 
insertions etc (i think). ksortirqd_CPU0 looks after software Interrupt for 
CPU0 in an SMP pair. The fact these are kernel processes incidentally means 
you cant kill them. More information can be found by grepping through the 
kernel source tree.

To find out the interfaces do a netstat -anp. Look for the lines which are 
LISTENing and if the local IP is 0.0.0.0 this means all interfaces. If a 
process is only bound to a single interface it will say its IP there.

All (?) modern Linux distribution start via the SysV system A usefull article 
is:
http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-12/start_02.html

but there are many sources.

Michael

On Sunday 14 October 2001 21:03, Donovan J. Edye wrote:
> G'Day,
>
> Another couple of very newbie questions:
>
> -	How can I tell what a process is if there is no man page or other
> info?
>
> root         2  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Oct08   0:00 [keventd]
> root         3  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SWN  Oct08   0:00
> [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
>
> -	How do you tell what interfaces a process is listening on? (I know
> how to figure out the port - based on a previous thread)
> -	For Debian - How do processes get automatically started at boot
> time. I realise it must have something to do with /etc/rcn.d but is there a
> FAQ that describes just how the start up process and run levels work?
>
> TIA
>
> -- Donovan
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