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matthewg42 11-08-2006 01:44 PM
firefox calling netstat - something to worry about?
 
Hi. I just noticed there was a defunct netstat process which I thought very weird, so I ran " pstree -p" to see where it was from and found this:

Code:
        |-kdeinit(4168)-+-firefox-bin(8189)-+-netstat(8204)
        |              |                  |-{firefox-bin}(8191)
        |              |                  |-{firefox-bin}(8192)
        |              |                  |-{firefox-bin}(8197)
        |              |                  |-{firefox-bin}(8202)
        |              |                  |-{firefox-bin}(8203)
        |              |                  `-{firefox-bin}(8206)
That's weird isn't it? I don't know why firefox would spawn a netstat process. Anyone else ever seen this / know what could cause it?

unSpawn 11-08-2006 04:19 PM
I don't know why firefox would spawn a netstat process.
"find /some/dir/firefox | while read x; do strings -an6 "${x}" 2>/dev/null | grep -q netstat && echo "${x}"; done" yields libsoftokn3.so. Apparently (Debian bugtrack) "netstat -ni" is used to feed entropy. 'nuff chAos already!


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