firefox calling netstat

matthewg42 · 11-08-2006, 02:44 PM

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, 05:19 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!