On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 5:12 AM, Olivier Mascia wrote:
> Reading this: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Open_VM_Tools_package
> after package installation and reboot,
>
> ps uxawww | grep vmware
>
> gives me this output which differs from the doc.pfsense.org article:
>
> root55265 0.0 0.2 17000 2516 - S12:04PM 0:00.00 sh -c ps
> uxawww | grep vmware 2>&1
> root55414 0.0 0.2 18740 2248 - S12:04PM 0:00.00 grep vmware
> root84296 0.0 0.8 103460 8236 - S11:37AM 0:00.34
> /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd -c /usr/local/share/vmware-tools/tools.conf -p
> /usr/local/lib/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc
>
> Does /usr/local/bin/vmtoolsd here correspond to /usr/local/sbin/vmware-guestd
> which the article shows?
> It says "As long as vmware-guestd is shown in the output, it is working."
> Here I have vmtoolsd, not vmware-guestd.
> Merely a matter of older/newer version of this stuff between the article and
> 2.3.x?
>
Correct, that hadn't been updated for more recent changes in
open-vm-tools. I just updated the page, yours is fine.
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