Package: sysvinit-utils Version: 2.93-8 Severity: important root@debian:~# echo; whoami; echo; ps aux | grep 'dd if'; echo; hd /proc/41344/cmdline ; echo; ls -l /proc/41344/exe; echo; pidof dd || echo "Not found"; echo; ls -l /proc/41344/exe
root root 41344 2.0 0.0 217704 1960 pts/3 D+ 20:40 0:09 dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/null bs=64k root 42045 0.0 0.0 218480 828 pts/9 S+ 20:48 0:00 grep dd if 00000000 64 64 00 69 66 3d 2f 64 65 76 2f 73 64 63 00 6f |dd.if=/dev/sdc.o| 00000010 66 3d 2f 64 65 76 2f 6e 75 6c 6c 00 62 73 3d 36 |f=/dev/null.bs=6| 00000020 34 6b 00 |4k.| 00000023 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Apr 11 20:44 /proc/41344/exe -> /usr/bin/dd Not found lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Apr 11 20:44 /proc/41344/exe -> /usr/bin/dd root@debian:~# For some reason pidof can't find 'dd'. pidof dd prints nothing and returns false (exit code 1). Both dd and pidof are running as root. killall -USR1 dd , delivers a signal to correct process, so killall (from psmisc package) does find it. Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages sysvinit-utils depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.56+nmu1 ii libc6 2.28-8 ii util-linux 2.33.1-0.1 sysvinit-utils recommends no packages. sysvinit-utils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
