On Samstag 07 November 2009, Stroller wrote: > On 7 Nov 2009, at 10:01, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Samstag 07 November 2009, Stroller wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> > >> I have just found a process called "pegasus" running on my machine. > >> Does anyone know what it is, please? > >> > >> # ps -e | grep peg > >> 816 ? 00:00:00 pegasus > >> # > >> > >> A Google suggested I might be able to find it's path thusly: > >> # ps -e -o pid,args | grep peg > >> 816 [pegasus] > >> 13927 grep --colour=auto peg > >> # > >> > >> But as you can see, no joy. What do the [square brackets] mean, > >> please? > > > > afaik it is a kernel process. > > Yes, on a second look I find other processes bracketed similarly - > e.g. rt2500pci and reiserfs. > > I'd love to know what the name of the kernel module is so I can unload > it: > > $ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i pegasus > CONFIG_USB_PEGASUS=y
it is not a module, but compiled in. You have to rebuild your kernel. And probably decrapify your config a lot.
